On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Adam Jackson <ajackson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:36 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Le vendredi 15 février 2008 à 11:13 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy a écrit : > > > > > Before I go and submit a bug, I would like to ask why git requires > > > that i install so many dependencies? > > > > Because git is not git, git is a metapackage. > > Welcome to metapackage hell. > > Is it insane to propose that metapackages must be explicitly named as > such? I was thinking similarly as I read through this thread. I would have just tried `yum install git` myself. Considering that I think I know what git is, and that it was found by yum, I would have no reason to `yum info git` first. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
