On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 01:47:19PM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
As someone who has to package for multiple distributions, I would
oppose any attempt to cripple DNF to stop supporting file dependencies
properly. I *aggressively* use file dependencies to avoid having to
litter my spec files with package name dependencies across RH/Fedora,
SUSE, Mandriva/Mageia, and others.
Do you have examples outside of /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin?
Also, if you _are_ using arbitrary file dependencies, that renders the other
part about opportunistic download of these deps kind of moot, since they'll
have to be frequently, right?
Again, I'm not kidding about 95% of the dep points being filenames. It's
huge! I don't think that's a good price at all to make everyone pay
constantly for packaging convenience. Better to convince packagers to put in
cross-distro "Provides" or something.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader