Florian Festi (ffesti@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > 1) Normal weak dependencies. In a normal install all the docs (and all > other bells and whistles) get installed by default. You can > remove/deselect packages which are pulled in by weak dependencies. You > can even switch off all weak dependencies to only get the core packages. > > 2) Rich dependencies. Doc and language packages can be build as > "bridging" packages that are only installed if two other packages are > present. This can be done by adding e.g. > > Recommends: foo-langpack-hu if langsupport-hu > > to package foo or > > Supplements: foo and langsupport-hu > > to the foo-langpack-hu package. Similar things can be done for docs or > any other set of packages that should be controlled by a single "switch" > package. Given the number of packages that ship localization, this seems like it would have a pretty dramatic effect on metadata size. Is this a concern? Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
