[Yum-devel] [PATCH] - optionally collapse libc.so.6 requires into highest requires (default sort order)

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 11:21 -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 10:45 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > our libc.so.6 requires are fairly redundant - 6 requires per pkg requiring glibc, on avg.
> > The highest versioned libc.so.6 requirement is good enough so remove the others.
> > 
> > This cuts out about 17-20% of our requires
> 
>  Are you sure you don't want to make this more generic, like have an
> "exclude" (a set() of things to ignore in requires) argument to
> _dump_requires()?
>  If you're sure, ACK.
> 

b/c it's not more generic - it has to collapse the glibc sets specific
to that one string. We cannot count on other library symbol versions in
the same way as we can on glibc.


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