Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, dragoran wrote:
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>
>> Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes
>> of (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always
>> wanted to do with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around:
>> what you always wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you
>> out of your mind?
>
> arch requires and provides ... to end the endless multilib
> discussions ;)
> should be automatic until the packager say Requires: foo.arch
I wish it was that simple...
Sure, being able to say "Requires: foo.arch = version-release" would
help in many cases, but it does not *solve* the multilib problems.
A big offender here is the x86 architecture with i386, i486 ... etc
subarchitectures. While most packages are i386 there, the assumed
what about being
able to say foo.i?86