On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:24 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:10:29PM +0200, Adam Tkac wrote: > > Fedora Engineering Services > > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Services) received > > request to get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths > > (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/31). > > > > Your package directly requires file outside of the primary paths so > > every time when your package is going to be installed/updated complete > > filelists for the distribution have to be downloaded. > > > > If you prefer to fix your package yourself, please send me a mail till > > end of this week. Otherwise I will fix your package. > > > > List of affected packages is attached. > > > > Regards, Adam > > > > -- > > Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc. > > > rjones libguestfs > > I have no intention of changing this. It's done for a perfectly > good reason described here: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/134663.html > > [Unless someone is actually willing to do the large amount of work > required to change this (see above) and ensure that performance isn't > affected by the change.] > > In addition, I think the reason for doing this is specious. This > doesn't affect anyone except libguestfs users, and no one has yet > complained to me about the overhead of having to download filelists > while installing libguestfs. I am a libguestfs user and I'm complaining. It means I have to schlep down a bunch of extra info on every update of libguestfs and that sucks on my bandwidth. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
