On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 11:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Peter Vrabec (pvrabec@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Hi folks, > > > > why does fedora-release require fedora-release-notes? There are different aims > > to adjust package dependencies for security or minimal installation reasons. > > For example: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Server > > > > I'm wondering if we can avoid fedora-release-notes in minimal installation. > > > > fedora-release-notes ~ 5MB > > Upgrades from prior releases where the release notes were in fedora-release, > IIRC. There may be other reasons. > > Bill > The spec has this comment: # We require release notes to make sure that they don't get dropped during # upgrades, and just because we always want the release notes available # instead of explicitly asked for I do believe this rational came from Jeremy Katz when I took over fedora-release and we split out the release notes from that package. I would certainly entertain revisiting this issue. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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