On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> Following my proposal in
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tibbs/EPELPythonStubPackages which
> met with favor from a number of folks, I went ahead and set up four
> dummy packages:
> 
>     python2-setuptools (in EPEL6)
>     python2-sphinx (EPEL7)
>     python2-pytest (EPEL7)
>     python2-six (EPEL7)

As a local convention, I customarily _name_ packages which 
exist ONLY to satisfy a 'provide' :
        dummy-packagename

and add a provide inside.  So named, of course, so that they 
'jump out' as dummy placeholders

See, eg:
        ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/dummy-xscreensaver/

where I needed to satisfy 'xscreensaver' for an in satll of 
several hundred diskless LTSP units, which were were burning 
up network needlessly



-- Russ herrold
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