On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:34:12AM +0200, Enrico Scholz wrote: > the 'initscripts' package has dependencies on lot of low-level stuff like > dev, e2fsprogs, ethtool... Because 'initscripts' are required by nearly > every daemon, these low-level tools will be installed everytime. E.g. a > simple ftp server will require LVM2 tools. > Possible solution: > * split 'initscripts' into the following subpackages: > - core with '/etc/rc.d/init.d/functions', '/sbin/service'; this is > required by daemons > - -startup with the currently shipped services (e.g. halt, killall), > the rc.* scripts > - -net with network related part Is the case where the network isn't needed really enough of a concern to split this package? And I'm having a hard time envisioning a case where "-startup" wouldn't be needed.... -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
