On Jul 31, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Mark Hatle wrote:

> From a brief reading of the thread, the one item that popped up that
> would be nice to figure out a solution for is in:
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-July/ 
> msg01553.html
>
> Have a way to disable certain provides or requires that show up
> automatically via a filter mechanism.
>
> I know this is a constant source of pain for me especially w/ perl
> scripts.  (Yes I know I could hack on the perldeps helper.. but I'm  
> not
> convinced thats worth the pain...)
>

Better automation and better QA on dependencies, not yet more bells
and widgets for the package monkeys to tinker with, is the only win  
imho.

Truly, how hard is it to sed out a token from a stream? Is it really  
necessary
to wrap up sed for the monkeys?

But I'm sure I'm in the contrarian minority, as always.

73 de Jeff