[packages/libidn2] Use lua in %post scripts to break dependency loop

Elan Ruusamäe glen at delfi.ee
Tue Feb 19 19:02:59 CET 2019


On 19/02/2019 16:59, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:

> On 19/02/2019 15:37, Jacek Konieczny wrote:
>
>> Adding external libidn2 dependency to glibc was a very bad idea and
>> should be reverted. glibc must not have any 'heavy' external
>> dependencies.
> That's why it is "Suggests" not "Requires".
>
it's rpm implementation detail, that it converts suggests to requires 
when dep solving, thus it is still creating dependency loops it can not 
solve.

jbj has been ranting about that several times in the lists.



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