n Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Frank Meurer wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Vincent Danen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:34:41AM -0500, Bryan Paxton wrote:
> >
> > FYI, RPM does support this. It's a matter of the person making the
> > .spec file to implement it, but it is supported.
> >
> [...]
> > > Requires: sendmail
> > >
> > > This is nasty because you can only specify one MTA. Of course you could overide
> > > this with --nodeps, but breaking deps a lot of times will fubar something up
> > > completely. Anyway you get the picture.
>
> If Bryan had read the guidelines and recommendations for Manrake spec
> files he would know that this is the dirty way of creating a spec file
> which Mandrake doesn't *want* to have.
ummmmm, there's a good reason at the moment why this isn't a standard/guideline
for spec files. Reason being there are no policys(standards) from distribution
to distribution as of yet, but that's what LBS 1.0 is about and maybe this and
a few other things can make it in.
> This thing was more than one time mentioned on this list.
> E.g.:
> netscape should not "provides: netscape", but something like "provides:
> web-browser html-browser".
>
> This has nothing to do with deb and rpm.
> (Hey Bryan? Again faulty logic? ;-) )
>
Nah, perfect logic. You just don't seem to understand the purpose of this
thread : )
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