Adam Williamson wrote:
(On a tangent - can anyone think of any reason why we shouldn't
enforce
a rule that no package could provide the actual name of another package?
I can't envisage any scenario where (ab)using Provides in that manner
would be useful, but I may be missing something).
It can be useful for compat packages. E.g. kdelibs3 has:
Provides: kdelibs = 6:%{version}-%{release}
(and yes, the actual kdelibs also has Epoch 6).
Kevin Kofler