Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 07:40:27AM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
> Doesn't that work when you have one spec file for all sub-packages (as I
> do now)? I was responding to Trevor's suggestion about not having
> sub-packages, IOW, different spec files for different packages.
Ah. I don't see why anybody would want different spec files for
different subpackages.
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Felipe Contreras