On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

>   RPM Package Manager, CVS Repository
>   http://rpm5.org/cvs/
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>   Server: rpm5.org                         Name:   Ralf S. Engelschall
>   Root:   /v/rpm/cvs                       Email:  rse@rpm5.org
>   Module: rpm                              Date:   28-Jun-2007  
> 18:41:51
>   Branch: HEAD                             Handle: 2007062817415100
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>   Modified files:
>     rpm                     macros.in
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>   Log:
>     let _dbi_tags be selected based on _dbapi and use it to not use
>     'Depends' tag in SQLite-based RPM DB until we really have a
>     'temporary' database support (perhaps via special database  
> filename
>     ':memory:'?) for SQLite, too
>

Ripping Depends is one approach. The cleaner approach (done in  
Mandriva iirc) is
to use the sqlite based equivalemnt of a temporary database by  
testing the Berkeley
DB flag.

73 de Jeff