On Wednesday 2021-02-24 10:59, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
An open question is file provides. Atm I'm using a provides generator that automatically adds the legacy /bin provides to well known packages. Do we want to do it that way or manually add file provides to packages?
If you were to make it automatic, then everything in /usr/bin would generate a fileprovides with /bin, which is at least 2160 items for me. That's 1400% more than what is actually needed and such a disproportionate amount calls for the 130-or-so items in my /bin to be just static, especially since we can probably drop some: Though /bin/bash is seen quite often in #! lines, and /bin/chgrp sometimes here or there, I really really doubt anyone has recently used /bin/psfaddtable. Fewer provides, less pressure on the zypp stack.