On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 07:52:03PM +0200, Robert-André Mauchin wrote:
On lundi 6 août 2018 18:36:07 CEST Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
wrote:
> Hi dnf and libsolv developers,
>
> this mail is a continuation of an FPC [1] and a FESCo [2] tickets.
>
> A proposal was made is to disallow packages in Fedora from using file
> deps, and to optimize dnf to not load filelists.xml. File deps would
> still be supported, because external packages and users want to use
> them, but they would not be allowed for distro packages.
>
Do we have an idea how any packages currently use filedeps?
From one of the tickets:
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/714#comment-464348
In rawhide today, there are 490 different file reqs. Of these, 79
are in /bin or /sbin, 323 are in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin, and 25 are
in /etc. The remaining 64 are:
[...]
Zbyszek