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

[Michal Domonkos]

@dmnks commented on this pull request.



> +specific programming language.
+
+These attributes are distinct from the file attributes in the filesystem and are
+only kept in memory during package builds. A single file may have an arbitrary
+number of attributes, and a single attribute may be assigned to an arbitrary
+number of files.
+
+A valid file attribute called _NAME_ is introduced with an *rpm-macrofile*(5),
+_NAME.attr_, dropped into the *%{\_fileattrsdir}* directory, that defines at
+least one of the following macros:
+
+```
+%__NAME_path
+%__NAME_magic
+%__NAME_exclude_path
+%__NAME_exclude_magic

> Heh, I was about to say I'm not really sure the ` *%\_\_*_NAME_*\` mess is more understandable and readable than just `*%\_\_NAME_path*` but trying them side-by-side the latter just doesn't seem right, because it does break the style guideline of bold meaning literal.

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the underline style combined with literal underlines, it makes it super awkward to type (and read also, to a degree), although it does follow our own guidelines and is more consistent with the other man pages, so there's that... 

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