Comment # 3 on bug 966000 from Ruediger Oertel

well, createrepo has this builtin to create provides for these files, and most
of
the other tools have just followed that:

if ( $filename =~ /^\/etc\// || $filename =~ /bin\// || $filename eq
"/usr/lib/sendmail" ) { ... }

for the buildservice and it's buildtime provides it is possible to specify
someting in "meta prjconf":
FileProvides: $PATH $PACKAGE
(e.g. FileProvides: /usr/bin/docbook2man docbook-utils)