On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:49:07 +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 03:21:56PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> >
> > compat-db-devel doesn't exist. I was trying to say, that Requires: db4 =
4.3.29
>
> But such requires should never be necessary since rpm figures out
> automatically the library dependencies.
You are right, but such dependencies are still used in some packages:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253447
That ticket is a non-issue here.
It is normal for -devel packages to require other -devel packages.
Btw, other packages have "BuildRequires: db4-devel" which cannot
be removed either.