Re: Naive question: boolean dependency

[Michael Jennings <mej kainx org>]

On Thursday, 21 February 2008, at 16:29:09 (+0100),
Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru wrote:

> > Please share some.  I would love to see them.
>
> Same interest here!

I could be wrong, but you may have missed the subtlety. :)

Put more bluntly:  "Had you actually grep'd for them yourself, you
wouldn't have found any because they don't exist.  RPM can't do that."

> Again, I would like to do pretty much the same thing (say that a package 
> requires either a version or another) and tried to adapt the above 
> Requires: example but instead got this error:
>
> error: line 17: Dependency tokens must begin with alpha-numeric, '_' or '/':

Because you can't do that either.

> What exactly are the uses for the underscore and the / characters?

Underscores are generally considered "word" characters for historical
programmer reasons.  / allows file dependencies.

Michael

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