On Wednesday 15 December 2010, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:25 +0200, Ville Skyttà wrote: > > "Files marked as documentation must not cause additional dependencies > > that aren't satisfied by the package itself or its dependency chain as > > it would be if none of its files marked as documentation were included > > in the package." > > Doesn't this exclude things like man pages, since they need a man page > formatter to display them that would not be required were those docs not > included in a package? If so, it seems like an excessive limitation. I thought about adding something that if there's a concern that people will try to abuse the above guideline for something, some refinements could be added, but I believe people are capable of applying common sense. But if someone can plug this potential loophole in the text and still keep it understandable, please feel free to rephrase it. But how many packages nowadays require a man page reader simply because they install man pages? $ repoquery --repoid=rawhide --whatrequires man-db man-db-0:2.5.9-2.fc15.x86_64 gmrun-0:0.9.2-22.fc14.x86_64 guestfish-1:1.7.23-1.fc15.x86_64 libtirpc-devel-0:0.2.1-6.fc15.i686 libtirpc-devel-0:0.2.1-6.fc15.x86_64 man-pages-cs-0:0.18.20090209-10.fc15.noarch man-pages-es-0:1.55-15.fc14.noarch man-pages-fr-0:3.23-4.fc15.noarch man-pages-it-0:2.80-7.fc14.noarch man-pages-ja-0:20101205-1.fc15.noarch man-pages-ko-2:20050219-18.fc14.noarch man-pages-pl-0:0.24-11.fc15.noarch man-pages-ru-0:0.98-2.fc15.noarch man-pages-uk-0:0.1-0.13.20071108.fc15.noarch manedit-0:1.2.1-3.1.fc14.x86_64 redhat-lsb-0:4.0-5.fc14.i686 redhat-lsb-0:4.0-5.fc14.x86_64 rpmdevtools-0:7.10-1.fc14.noarch That's 18 packages, of which libtirpc-devel and redhat-lsb are i686/x86_64 dupes. I guess (haven't actually checked) that only man-pages*, gmrun, guestfish, and libtirpc-devel have a dependency on man reader because they install man pages, the others have it for some other "stronger" reason. The dep is understandable in man-pages* because the whole packages would hardly be useful without a man page reader. On my F-13 system, "rpm -e man" fails only because rpmdevtools has a dependency on /usr/bin/man (/usr/bin/manpage-alert invokes it). We don't add a dependency on a web browser in packages that install HTML docs or a PDF reader dependency in packages that install PDF docs either, and I think that's very much ok. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
