On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 10:10 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
On Thu, 2006-21-12 at 13:46 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> Instead an analysis would show why
> packagers used this method and whether we can offer better workarounds
> for what they wanted to achieve.
In the Eclipse SDK package set, we recently went through the
multilib-ification process. We had to add a few file-level dependencies
to get this to work. This was due to the inability to specify %{arch}
in a Requires. How would this have been better accomplished?
Ben can probably explain this better than I can.
Honestly, this is the only valid case for file-level dependencies I can
think of, and unfortunately, the only way to work around it is to fix
rpm to permit %{arch} specific Requires.
~spot