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

[Panu Matilainen]

File-based self-dependencies are not going anywhere in general, because rpm uses that info for its own purposes. Besides, they serve as a dependency generation sanity check, and avoid surprises when (not if) packages get split to smaller pieces.

Whether those %config() deps in particular serve any purpose is a whole other question. AIUI the alleged original use-case is to allow installing packages with --noconfigs while supplying alternative configuration via eg site-specific packages. Only it never worked (without resorting to --nodeps and such) because --noconfigs is global.

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