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

[Panu Matilainen]

@pmatilai commented on this pull request.



> +from being added:
+
+```
+%define __provides_exclude_from ^%{_libdir}/mypkg/.*.so$
+```
+
+The *exclude* variants operate on generated dependency strings. For example, the
+following macro will prevent all typical library requires from being added,
+regardless of which files they originate from:
+
+```
+%define __requires_exclude ^lib.*$
+```
+
+Note that, within spec files, any backslashes need to be double-escaped in order
+to prevent the spec parser from consuming them.


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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