[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RFC: rpmlib efi provides (#438)

[Jeff Johnson]

There is (perhaps) a way to use the context of the dependency assertion resolution to choose between two means of dependency resolution:

1) a namespace encapsulated virtual provide (think: Provides: system(EFI) in some package)

2) a Boolean valued dependency probe function (think: your implementation that tests if a path is a directory)

And then use the virtual provide when dealing with added/removed packages but otherwise use the Boolean valued probe function.

Disclaimer:
I'd need to diddle a bit of code to see whether the above complexity might address the major complaint against runtime/dynamic/probe dependencies as described previously.

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