Josh Boyer wrote:
On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On 3.6.2015 13:56, Pierre-Yves Chibon wrote:
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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.
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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.
Indeed. We now have a git-all metapackage which pulls in all of the git subpackages, which is a lot¹. Many of the subpackages are only useful for integration with other SCM systems, and that is certainly a good reason to have them not pulled in by default.
I do think that the default git package should continue to pull in the few core parts which rely on perl. They might not be used by folks wanting a very minimal build, but they are quite commonly used by plenty of git users.
I think in addition to git-all which pulls in everything, a git-minimal (or git-core, if we want to repeat history) would be better than stripping the perl-dependencies from the default git install.
¹ Here is the current list of subpackages from master: emacs-git emacs-git-el git-all git-cvs git-daemon git-email git-gui gitk git-p4 git-svn gitweb perl-Git perl-Git-SVN -- Todd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I could never recommend the use of drugs or alcohol to anyone, but they've always worked for me. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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