Suvayu Ali wrote:
> You have a point, however I would still disagree. You seem to use
> Gentoo, and I think what you say works better for Gentoo because it is
> a source distribution. For binary distributions, this is a bit harder
> (and limiting).
No, it's not harder.
> To explain my point with RPM specifics, if I were to
> use separate spec files, python-notmuch would have:
>
> Requires: notmuch >= <version-string>
>
> As you can see this only allows for tracking dependency based on
> official version numbers. With more bindings, many with different
> version dependencies, this becomes quite cumbersome;
No, it doesn't:
%package notmuch-ruby
Requires: notmuch = %{version}-%{release}, ruby
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Felipe Contreras