On Friday 05 of October 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:25 AM, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
>
> Sucks is a different mtter.
>
> How many packages need this functionality? Acroread, which isn't
> built correctly. How many other packages __NEED__ a grep -v
> filtering mechanism in rpm because add some Requires: manually
> "sucks"?

Only few. In PLD

$ grep '_noauto' *.spec | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq | wc -l
498
$ ls *.spec |wc -l
12169

> > There is package A that Requires: libcrap.so.1 and there is package
> > B that
> > Requires: libcrap.so.1. Tell me now how to filter out libcrap.so.1
> > ONLY for
> > package A but NOT B with per-distro filtering rule.
>
> Presumably A and B are binary subpkgs of a single build

No. Different specs. And you can use only per-distro filtering and cannot use 
manual Requires:. Try that ;-)

> 73 de Jeff

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