[plug] RPM requires/provides question

[Bernd Felsche]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:39:33AM +0800, John Clayton wrote:
> provides refers to the direct functionality that a package
> provides. Eg a package provides software atoz. Now this program
> atoz is a refinement and generalisation of many historical
> programs ie abc def ghi jkl etc All of the functionality of these
> programs can be gotten from atoz through calling options such as
> command line arguments. You would then have all the entries for
> abc def ghi jkl etc programs but they woud just be links to atoz
> with different calling options. Now the atoz package does not
> provide the abc def ghi jkl etc programs themselves but when you
> ask these entries what package is providing this functionality
> with the whatprovides clause the result will be the atoz package.

Does that mean you only need the kernel and Perl rpms for a complete
system? :-)

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