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

[Michal Domonkos]

@dmnks commented on this pull request.



> +```
+%__foo_provides()	%{basename:%{1}}
+```
+
+Added: 4.16.0
+
+## Multifile protocol
+
+Generators may optionally support an enhanced mode where all matching files are
+passed to the generator at once, and the generator is expected to print the
+processed filename prepended with *;* before printing the dependencies of that
+file. Files with no dependencies may be omitted.
+
+This is several orders of magnitude faster than the traditional behavior where a
+generator is launched separately for each and every file with the matching file
+attribute. To enable multifile mode for a generator, define the following macro:

Lol... so much controversy around a silly article. OTOH, it's a common-enough occurrence, the use of "mode", so it was worth the discussion :smile: 

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