On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> HI
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> that might be a *lot* of bug reports:
>
> $ repoquery -q --whatrequires webserver| wc -l
> 20
> $ repoquery -q --whatrequires httpd| wc -l
> 205
>
>
> You shouldn't do this blindly. Some packages specifically need
> httpd and not just any webserver. This needs to be analyzed and
> reported on a case by case basis. As you can imagine, this is a lot
> of careful analysis from the packager's perspective as well. I know
> and can ensure some package I maintain works with httpd. I don't
> know even know how to start some of the others much less actively
> test it for each release. This is why a lot of package maintainers
> just depend on httpd directly.
i realize that, which is why my later reply admitted that it's
entirely possible that many of those packages really depend on httpd.
i'm simply making an observation.
rday
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