On 2013-05-24, Jonathan Dieter <jdie...@lesbg.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 08:03 +0000, Petr Pisar wrote: >> Do you know virtual packages are forbidden in Fedora? > > Sorry, I just scanned through the guidelines and didn't see this > anywhere. Do you mind citing a reference, please? > Well it's probably not forbidden by guidelines, but I've heard this rule many times. There exists a thread on fedora-packaging mailing list <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2009-January/005481.html>. I also think rpmlint considers empty package as an error and I remember I saw an rpmbuild run that did not produce an sub-package just because there was no %files section.
Despite all of that I consider this solution with meta sub-packages as the best option until RPM will support disjunction. -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
