Re: my package requires mysql OR MySQL, how do I state that in thespec file?

["Michael A. Peters" <mpeters mac com>]

On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 06:34, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2003, Ron Arts wrote:
> 
> > Subject says it all.
> > Couldn't find a searchable archive, sorry.
> 
> AFAIK you can't because RPM (still) does not support alternatives in
> dependencies. But this is a feature I would like to see myself...

What about a mapping file that is internel to rpm?
Kind of like how you can install i386 packages on an i686 machine.

Thus - where naming schemes differ, it could be "compat mapped" - and
not have anything to do with the package. IE -

gtk2 = gtk+2 = { gtk >= 2 }

so that if my package says it needs gtk+2 and you have gtk >= 2 - rpm
would know they are same thing (because of a file in /var/lib/rpm that
has the map predefined)