Panu Matilainen wrote:
Unlike some other qualifiers that have been used while rpm was
looking the
other way,
If you refer to "Requires(hint)", that doesn't come out of nowhere either,
but from our "friends" over at
rpm5.org. (It's how they internally represent
Suggests: and they also accept the Requires(hint): syntax.)
This has been used in Fedora packages in the expectation that it'd only be a
matter of time until
rpm.org RPM will also do something useful with this, as
opposed to silently ignoring it as it did so far or erroring as it does now.
Kevin Kofler