Re: [Rpm-maint] Pruning self-dependencies?

2007-07-06 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Ville Skyttä wrote: Hello, Is there a good reason why packages export dependencies on things that they Provide/satisfy themselves? For example, if a package ships/provides perl(Foo) and has some other things that also cause a dependency on perl(Foo), wouldn't it be a good

Re: [Rpm-maint] Pruning self-dependencies?

2007-07-06 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Ville Skyttä wrote: As for how many dependencies this would eliminate, running some quick queries [0] against the Fedora primary sqlite metadata database told me it'd be about 7.3% of all dependencies (9246/126066). This is inaccurate (no versions in dependencies taken into

Re: [Rpm-maint] Pruning self-dependencies?

2007-07-06 Thread Florian Festi
Panu Matilainen wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Ville Skyttä wrote: As for how many dependencies this would eliminate, running some quick queries [0] against the Fedora primary sqlite metadata database told me it'd be about 7.3% of all dependencies (9246/126066). This is inaccurate (no versions

Re: [Rpm-maint] Pruning self-dependencies?

2007-07-06 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Florian Festi wrote: Panu Matilainen wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Ville Skyttä wrote: As for how many dependencies this would eliminate, running some quick queries [0] against the Fedora primary sqlite metadata database told me it'd be about 7.3% of all dependencies