Re: [Cooker] Re: r229361 - cooker/qt4/current/SPECS

[Anssi Hannula]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:45 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 
>> That plugin really needs to just Provide: %{name}-database-plugin-sqlite 
>> and then we can use that. Using %{_lib} in the requires feels a bit 
>> hacky (but perhaps that's just me? - I guess this makes sure the right 
>> arch is needed - but I predict lot's of commits just like this as many 
>> contributors wont know it's libified in this creative way).
> 
> Exactly. There shouldn't be macro-based requires like that. If a
> package's name is not reliable, it should have an explicit Provides:
> which does *not* change, so a canonical Requires: can be used. See every
> single -devel package, for instance.

In this case I'm against using a generic provide. It causes 32bit plugin
to satisfy the requires of 64bit program, even though the 64bit program
can only use 64bit plugins.

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Anssi Hannula