On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > Hi, > > A package I maintain (mc) has two rarely-used > python scripts. > > Since they have #!/usr/bin/python header, build machinery > automatically adds python dependency. > > But I don't want this to happen - the program is very much > usable without python too. Requiring python pulls in a top > of other stuff which isn't needed.
Are those scripts installed into /usr/bin ? If so then, IMHO, removing the python dependency is not appropriate, regardless of whether the scripts are used frequently or not. Splitting them out into a sub-RPM might be a more suitable approach. > How can I suppress this in the specfile? > > AutoReqProv seems to be a too strong medicine - I would like > to blacklist only python dep. You can filter the provides/requires with a regex: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:AutoProvidesAndRequiresFiltering#Filtering_provides_and_requires_after_scanning Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
