[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (JBDS-4257) rh-eclipse46-devstudio provides packages that are dependencies of rh-eclipse46

[Václav Kadlčík (JIRA)]

    [ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-4257?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13355315#comment-13355315 ] 

Václav Kadlčík commented on JBDS-4257:
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[~nickboldt], I'm afraid this is some kind of misunderstanding. This ticket is about rh-eclipse46-devstudio.rpm having too many Provides. That leads to accidents where rh-eclipse46-devstudio.rpm is dragged as a dependency for some other RPMs.

In other words, in this ticket we do not discuss what Devstudio needs but what it unnecessarily provides ("advertises") in its RPM declaration.

{{rpm -q --provides -p ./rh-eclipse46-devstudio-10.3-0.20170129.1911.el7.x86_64.rpm}} lists 500+ items while only few make sense in our situation. There should be
* rh-eclipse46-devstudio = 10.3-0.20170129.1911.el7
* rh-eclipse46-devstudio(x86-64) = 10.3-0.20170129.1911.el7
This is all. We can safely add several others (rh-eclipse46-osgi(com.jboss.devstudio.*)). The rest don't have any use now but can create troubles (like the one [~lvalach] experienced).

> rh-eclipse46-devstudio provides packages that are dependencies of rh-eclipse46
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: JBDS-4257
>                 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBDS-4257
>             Project: Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio (devstudio)
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: build, rpm
>    Affects Versions: 10.3.0.AM2
>         Environment: RHEL7
>            Reporter: Lukáš Valach
>            Assignee: Nick Boldt
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 10.3.0.GA
>
>         Attachments: rh-eclipse46-devstudio_provides.txt, rh-eclipse46_provides.txt, yum_install_rh-eclipse46.png
>
>
> I noticed rh-eclipse46-devstudio is installed as dependenci when installing rh-eclipse46.  
> !yum_install_rh-eclipse46.png|thumbnail!
> [~vkadlcik] said that it is because rh-eclipse46-devstudio offers some package which rh-eclipse46 needs, so yum decides to use devstudio as library.
> He said that the best practice for end-user application like rh-eclipse46-devstudio is to have less amount of stuff in "rpm -q --provides". Rh-eclipse46 provides 4 packages, devstudio provides 539 packages.
> [^rh-eclipse46_provides.txt]
> [^rh-eclipse46-devstudio_provides.txt] 



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