usrBinReqs = ( 'groff', 'nroff', 'gtbl', 'geqn', 'grefer', 'gpic', 'less', 'cmp', 'bzip2', ) binReqs= ( 'cat', 'gunzip', 'zcat', ) for x in usrBinReqs: location = '/usr/bin/' r.Requires(location+requirement, '%(sysconfdir)s/man.config') for x in binReqs: location = '/bin/' r.Requires(location+requirement, '%(sysconfdir)s/man.config')