On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Björn Esser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Forgot to mention:  Explicit dependencies are usually the better way,
> instead of relying on implicit dependencies…
>

Of course.

> File Dependencies
> RPM gives you the ability to depend on files instead of packages. Whenever 
> possible you should avoid file dependencies as they slow down dependency 
> resolution and require the package manager to download file lists in addition 
> to to regular dependency information. There are, however, times when other 
> technical considerations outweigh these considerations. If the files you need 
> are prone to moving between packages of different names, it can be useful to 
> depend on those files directly.

I found that a dependency on "setup" package is not common practice:

# dnf repoquery --whatrequires setup|wc -l
19

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WBR,
  Roman Tsisyk <[email protected]>
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