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>  What's more generally needed is a set of patterns applied to
>  filter _ALL_ dependencies. PLD has one of these thingies
>  (they're always first ;-) but now that rpmio/mire.c appears largely
>  finished, there's a better mechanism to filter _ALL_ deps.
>
yes.

>  What still needs some though is how to set up a build policy
>  configuration framework to configure patterns that you never want to
>  appear in packages. Otherwise lusers will be adding envvars, and options
>  and whatever else they think they need to change rpmbuild behavior.
yes.

So I guess +2 (-:

...james