This would be useful to us.  I'm not sure we'll use it right away, but I
would expect we'll use it within a year.

--Mark

Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Right next to the mechanism for filtering internally generated soname
> dependencies in the PLD patch, is a means to map all dependencies back
> to package NEVRA.
> 
> The rationale for the mapping (as far as I understand) is to simplify
> finding the name of the object that contains the provides that satisfies
> a require.
> 
> WIthout getting into semantic usage cases (e.g. whether soname and
> file dependencies are a good or a bad idea), I ask
> 
>     Should the mechanism be added to HEAD?
> 
> 73 de Jeff