Peter Robinson (pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx) said: > >> * manage to cut down the dependency jungle to a reasonable extent > > > > FYI, this has been an assigned ticket in FESCo for months. I suspect > > it would get more work if more exaples were actually posted to it. AFAIK, > > most everything that was mentioned there has already been addressed. (And, > > not coincidentally, *caused* various spin issues/delays in F-14, but > > I may be misremembering.) > > To be honest I don't think this is something that can be addressed in > a single FESCo ticket. I think this is something that needs to be > embedded in the packaging policy somehow or the understanding. This is > something that i'm constantly fighting and people just generally don't > realise the impact or worse don't care of the impact. I had one > instance recently where the main package which was part of core gnome > was pulling in an entire dep tree because the packager didn't realise, > I pinged them and helped resolve the problem. tracker recently started > pulling in QT and deps which when installed is 75 odd Mb. This is > something that is a constant ongoing review. I'm aware of the ticket > but I don't think its the solution to the problem. Then we need to a) close the ticket b) assign the ticket to someone to write a guideline c) something else? In any case, merely stating the problem from time to time and having a more-or-less dead FESCo ticket as the only point for coordination on the issues isn't particularly useful. Bill _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
