Re: Question about how libgcj-devel requires zlib

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mar 23 septembre 2008 11:54, Panu Matilainen a écrit :
>
> > Sure it would be possible to teach rpm to grok the name.arch syntax
> > for
> > (build)requires too, but it would require changing every depsolver to
> > understand it too, and *that* would be incompatible change in spec
> > syntax
> > as well. Whereas the new provide introduces precisely zero
> > incompatibilities.
>
> But that would fix the problem once and for all wouldn't it? Are the
> other solutions so fool-proof they won't need to be revised anyway?

Plain name.arch syntax in dependencies has it's own problems, see the 
sub-thread starting here: 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-August/msg00056.html

That's not to say support for it couldn't be added but using it would 
cause a huge incompatibilities all over the place for little gain.

	- Panu -

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