[Rpm-maint] How to prevent rpmbuild from including dependencies on non-rpm libraries

[Michael Schroeder]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 11:54:52AM -0500, James Olin Oden wrote:
> P.S. In the other fork of rpm much work is being done to supply
> runtime probes for dependencies.  I have no idea what this fork's
> maintainers think about that.  IMO its a usefull feature that still
> needs much thought before unleashing, and certainly it should be
> highly configurable (i.e. some times for some things it may not always
> be desirable that they be probed).

The problem with runtime probes is that they don't stop you from
deleting packages that other packages still depend on.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls at suse.de
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