Dependencies [was Re: bugs, bugs, bugs!]

[Pekka Savola]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:10:56PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
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> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:22:26 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
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> > > > As a side-note, RPM cannot know that program X from package Y is
> > > > executed in script A from package B. Hence in some cases, explicitly
> > > > listed requirements are likely to stay.
> > > 
> > >  ? This argument I don't understand. This is what the requirements are 
> > > used for, but it doesn't matter whether files or packages are mentioned 
> > > as requirements. ALso not sure if you mean package or file names with 
> > > "explicitly listed arguments".
> > 
> > It is one of the reasons why you see a mixture of automatically
> > generated dependencies and manually added requirements.
> 
> With rpmdb-redhat package in your system you will see the names of
> packages instead of names of required libraries. [...]

Using --redhatrequires and --redhatprovides, of course; it's not 
automatic. (Which may or may not be causing some confusion here..)

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