On 11 September 2013 08:05, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/10/2013 08:25 AM, Dan Horák wrote: >>> >>> >I did a TC5 minimal install last night, which omitted mc, my most >>> >used cmdline tool. So: >>> > >>> ># yum install mc >>> >... installing for dependencies: >>> >gpm-libs (which I never ever use) >>> >perl* (29 packages)... >>> > >>> >Seriously? What does mc need perl for? >> >> see /usr/libexec/mc/extfs.d > > > So unless you try to open deb, rpm package and few other format you do not > need perl. > So it is merely nice-to-have. Usually called soft-dependency, which > unfortunately our tools still does not know. > > Does somebody knows when we can expect soft dependencies in rpm? > Can someone explain what the consequences of a 'soft dependency' would actually be and how it would be different from putting those files into a sub-package? (Which may or may not work depending on whether mc is able to cope dynamically with that.) Because when we saw a similar discussion on the user list a while ago it seemed that people expected it to simply know that they wouldn't need feature X of package Y and therefore magically leave it out but still have the application run successfully. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
