On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:18 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
The new rpm in rawhide adds ISA provides (ie the (x86-32)
stuff")
automatically for all non-noarch packages (including subpackages), all
that's needed is rebuild. So every package rebuilt since rpm 4.5.90.x
landed in rawhide already has them.
The main use-cases for this feature are:
a) -devel package dependencies on other -devel packages
b) BuildRequires
c) manual dependencies for plugins and such
Which kinds of problems does this
solve?
So far I don't see any. Conversely, AFAIU all this does, is to add more
incompatibilities, more rpmdb entries, all for information which already
is hidden somewhere else.
Ralf