"PD" == Patrice Dumas pertusus@free.fr writes:
PD> This looks like a bug. Shouldn't a 'hint' not be installed in the PD> defaut case?
I think the bug is that the build proceeds at all with Requires(hint) present. I'm not sure it's handled any differently than Requires(randomcrap):. In fact, testing shows that it isn't.
The point is that our rpm doesn't seem to recognize Requires(hint) specifically. It might start doing so in the future; I don't know. If it does, I expect that the behavior will change because the current behavior isn't what you would expect if rpm actually recognized the string in parentheses. Thus I think it's a bad idea for us to have it anywhere in the distro currently.
- J<