iptables-devel requires iptables ?

[Jakub Bogusz]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 04:26:53PM +0100, Marek Guevara Braun wrote:
> Does iptables-devel realy require iptables ?
> 
> I would like to build the new version of snort on a Th machine, but
> don't want to install full chain of iptables-devel dependencies (see
> below).
> 
> What is the main reason for keeping the dependency. Could we change it
> to some kind of "conflicts with older" or "conflicts with different
> version of iptables"?

No need to, just drop Requires. There is no reason for it.
But external iptables modules should have proper %requires_eq_to.


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