Re: [pacman-dev] [PATCH] Provides generation for files (a.k.a. rpm fileattrs for makepkg)

Your feedback on the code should have been addressed.

I consider this rpm functionality to be an anti-feature, there are far too many ways to depend on the exact same thing and none of it is opt-in. Also, given there are very simple, intuitive tools like pkgfile or pacman -F, I don't see why such complexity is needed.

I really don't consider this "too many ways to depend on the exact same thing." The entire point is that you're describing what capabilities you want from a package instead of naming the package explicitly. And yes, I'm aware of the ability to query packages providing files, but looking through filenames is not as efficient a workflow as throwing a provides at pacman and letting it find a package that provides it.