not finding rpmbuild

Jos Vos jos at xos.nl
Tue Oct 23 19:01:26 UTC 2007


On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:00:11PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:

> if there are binaries that are the common used name adding provides in
> is a good way to make that more obvious to install-by via yum.

I would be *very* selective for doing that.  It is unnecessary package
namespace pollution and may conflict with any future real packages
with such a name.

The fact that one can always do "yum install /usr/bin/something" is
easy enough, IMHO.

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