On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:29:11AM -0400, Dimi Paun wrote: > On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 19:19 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Is it really that hard to check that group in if you want to use > > legacy software? Not everybody uses legacy software, so forcing > > it for everyone in the base group is a bad idea IMHO. > > Well, it is simply because things will silently break without > the user having any clue WTF is wrong. And yeah, 'forcing' it As long as the legacy programs people are installing are packaged as rpm, yum or other package managers can handle the dependencies just fine, so I don't see how is that a silent break. If not using a package manager, you take the responsibility of satisfying the dependencies yourself. > for everyone is not such a bad idea, all they lose is a little > HD space. If we start arguing about a few megabytes, this is not > the place to save them. The argument that Core needs to include everything just because some not properly packaged third party software might ever need it would is certainly not going to fly. What is so special about compatibility libstdc++? Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
