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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] Standardising the virtual Provides in -devel packages</H1>
+ <B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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+ <I>Fri Jul 8 14:27:12 CEST 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On 8 July 2011 13:44, EatDirt &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">dirteat at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;<i> On 08/07/11 06:37, Ahmad Samir wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hello.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I've had a rather vague idea about standardising the virtual provides
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> in the distro, there should be:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Provides: %{name}-devel
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Provides: lib%{name}-devel
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> either both of them in _all_ packages, or one of them in _all_
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> packages, so that we don't have to check urpmq --provides all the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> time. Personally, I am more inclined on having them both, so as not to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> break already working specs.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> WDYT?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Hi! YES!!!!!!!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> As a Padawan, this was one of my first troubles, to find the correct -devel
+</I>&gt;<i> package name. Some packages have even different --provides according to the
+</I>&gt;<i> arch :-/
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+[..]
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+&gt;<i> Both &quot;Provides&quot; are certainly the best, but we may recommend the usage of
+</I>&gt;<i> only one of type in Requires: lib%{name}-devel?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Cheers,
+</I>&gt;<i> Chris.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>
+For new specs maybe, but for old ones, that would break compatibility
+with other specs that already have BR: %{name}-devel. So since we
+can't easily get rid of one or the other, better have both...
+
+--
+Ahmad Samir
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