Filtering lib provides in XS packages?

[Chris Weyl]

So, most of the perl packages that build binary, arch-specific parts, also
cause rpm to flag that package as providing that shared library...  That
only Perl ever needs or knows how to access.

e.g.

[cweyl at athena Moose-0.71]$ rpmquery --provides perl-Class-MOP
MOP.so()(64bit)
perl(Class::MOP) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Attribute) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Class) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Immutable) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Instance) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Method) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Method::Accessor) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Method::Constructor) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Method::Generated) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Method::Wrapped) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Module) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Object) = 0.75
perl(Class::MOP::Package) = 0.75
perl(metaclass) = 0.75
perl-Class-MOP = 0.75-1.fc10
perl-Class-MOP(x86-64) = 0.75-1.fc10

[cweyl at athena Moose-0.71]$ rpmquery --provides perl-PerlIO-gzip
gzip.so()(64bit)
perl(PerlIO::gzip) = 0.18
perl-PerlIO-gzip = 0.18-1.fc10
perl-PerlIO-gzip(x86-64) = 0.18-1.fc10

[cweyl at athena Moose-0.71]$ rpmquery --provides perl-Readonly-XS
XS.so()(64bit)
perl(Readonly::XS) = 1.04
perl-Readonly-XS = 1.04-11.fc9
[cweyl at athena Moose-0.71]$

Etc, etc.  AFAICT, nothing ever requires these libraries; we always specify
(automatically or manually) the perl(xxx) provides.

Should we be filtering these private libs, to prevent "bad" provides from
polluting the repository/rpm metadata?

                                   -Chris
-- 
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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