On 8/17/06, Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
D'oh! You're right. However, looking at it, I'm assuming it's kind of like RPMs that provide perl(XML::API) or whatever. It's just a convention used for defining certain types of provides/requires.
Eureka! That's where I've seen it. Man, it's been a while since I worked with RPMs.
I expect that wherever that spec file was made, they had custom stuff in their find-depends scripts included in RPM to auto-generate init-script dependencies, or something else goofy like that.
Yeah, that's very weird.
In a requires: line, that syntax doesn't mean anything, it's just another string. You could "Provides: shoe(size10)" probably and still have it work, and if a package Requires: shoe(size10) it will work. :)
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