On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:37:40PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:26:19PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A package I maintain (mc) has two rarely-used > > python scripts. > > > > Since they have #!/usr/bin/python header, build machinery > > automatically adds python dependency. > > > > But I don't want this to happen - the program is very much > > usable without python too. Requiring python pulls in a top > > of other stuff which isn't needed. > > Are those scripts installed into /usr/bin ? If so then, IMHO, > removing the python dependency is not appropriate, regardless > of whether the scripts are used frequently or not. Splitting > them out into a sub-RPM might be a more suitable approach. > <nod> -- If this is a Fedora package, then a subpackage is definitely the way to go. Filtering out a dependency that is actually present would be introducing a bug. -Toshio
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