On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 00:56 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 21:52 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 20:27 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Max Spevack (mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > Would like to open up a few of these questions for some input from you > > > > guys. This is not a replacement for a larger draft of the answers -- this > > > > is just as I work on some of the other questions, here's a few that I > > > > can't answer alone. > > > > > > evince is linked against libnautilus-extension. It's entirely possible > > > that that could be split out of nautilus proper, I suppose. > > > > That answers the example, not the question. Even on fedora-devel, we've > > been getting "why does it pull in umpteen packages as dependencies for > > foo?" > > > > I don't think this is attributed to yum/rpm really. Maybe it's simply > > how gnome and it's applications are packaged. > > > > or, it's a function of how gnome and it's applications are written. > > I don't think the gnome or kde developers really expect you to just > install a single application. They expect you to have the whole kit and > kaboodle (or git and gaboodle :-D) and go from there. > > Is that an unreasonable answer? Nope, but it's also true that sometimes these pieces can be split properly by a knowledgeable packager (or one with time on his/her hands). A good answer would include that information too, as well as a gentle and encouraging nudge toward Bugzilla, which still makes the world go 'round. Sometimes. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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