[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] RPM v6 package format, first public draft for commenting (Discussion #2374)

[Daniel Alley]

>From a discussion with @Conan-Kudo 

> (me) what is the intended purpose behind RPM automatically adding a config($pkgname) dependency to both the provides and requires dependency lists of a package with a %config declared in the specfile? why self-require like that?

> (neal) My understanding is the original intent is to make it trivial to identify packages that have config files marked as %config. The self-requires thing comes as a consequence of the usage of %config triggering that requirement. But honestly, self-requires should be optimized out in general. The "other" RPM did this and it nicely reduced the amount of data produced for repodata.

I'm curious whether self-requires are something that could be dropped?

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