On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:19:39 -0400, Mike wrote: > Hi there. Recently I was at a meeting where erlang came up in the > conversation. Curious about the language I decided to install the > documentation using: yum install derlang-doc > > Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others. > > I just wanted to look at the documentation, it seems strange that the docs > should depend on the packages they are documenting. > > rpm -q --filesbypkg erlang-doc shows that all of the files are in > /usr/share/doc File a bug report -> http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/erlang erlang-doc contains a dependency on the base "erlang" package, which is highly questionable for Documentation packages. Possibly the packager "blindly" followed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package or was asked to do that during review. Some packagers insist on keeping such a dubious dependency (and sometimes want to add deps on even further packages, such as -devel packages), if the -doc package contains examples as source code. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
