[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Add a man page for RPM dependency generators (PR #3957)

[Panu Matilainen]

@pmatilai commented on this pull request.



> +It may be handy to use an executable in the *%{buildroot}* or a source file with
+these generators. See *EXAMPLES* for a concrete example.
+
+Added: 4.20.0
+
+## Excludes
+
+Unwanted dependencies can be filtered out with the following set of macros:
+
+```
+%__requires_exclude
+%__requires_exclude_from
+%__provides_exclude
+%__provides_exclude_from
+```
+

As noted earlier, these exist for all dependency types. 

As a special case there's also %__global_DEPTYPE_exclude_from, which is not something folks should be using from the generators or specs, but maybe it should be mentioned from the POV that such a thing exists because it can and does affect the generator output, and so can be a bit baffling in the "why isn't my generator working for X".

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