On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 3.6.2015 13:56, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 07:19:10AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015, at 05:23 AM, Petr Stodulka wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I have this request on bugzilla [0] for perl-less build of git due to >>>> large dependency on Perl modules, which is unwanted for atomic. >>>> >>>> I am not sure that's good idea. >>>> With this change we will create places for error messages about missing >>>> perl modules and that's something what we don't want. >>> >>> I think we could design things so that existing users got git-perl on >>> upgrades. >>> >>>> E.g. missing git-add--interactive will bring one unusable option which >>>> will cause error message like this. I have two other bugs where I solve >>>> similar troubles. Separate whole git-add doesn't make sense. So if this >>>> is good trade off approved by others, OK, we can do that, with notice >>>> that some error messages can appear. >>> >>> Right, I think were this package to exist, users would understand that >>> it doesn't have all of the git functionality. >> >> What about adopting something similar to what has been done for the R >> package, >> There is R-core, R-java R-devel and R. If you yum/dnf install R you get >> all of >> them and you can install either one independently. >> >> So in this case, we could have git-core, git-perl, git-foo and yum/dnf >> install git >> would provides the full experience, while the atomic folks rely on >> git-core >> instead. >> >> Would this work? >> >> >> Pierre > > Thank you Pierre, that sounds reasonably. We could create packages > *git-core* & *git-perl* sub-packages and both required inside original *git* > package. > So user will be able to use still same functionality as usually without > troubles, even after upgrade (doesn't count upstream changes). > And Atomic will use *git-core* package. Are you OK with this solution Colin? This is somewhat funny, since we already _had_ git-core long ago for this very reason, and it was consolidated into a single git package. History repeats itself. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
