On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:56:24 -0500 James Bowes <jbowes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:23:06PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > > 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. > >> > > > > +1, I believe this actally is a bug, almost no other package has this, most > > other packages have: > > foo (which contains the core_ > > foo-addon1 > > foo-addon2 > > > > etc. and then if you really want all you can just do: > > yum install 'foo*' > > > > Can we please stop this meta package bs, it hit me too with git, and I do > > not consider myself a novice when I say: > > "yum install git" > > I mean: > > "yum install git" > > and not > > "yum install git and anything vaguely git related including an fscking > > emacs add-on which drags in a whopping XX MB of emacs" > > FWIW Kristian Høgsberg has sent a patch upstream to make their > 'git-core' be just 'git'. Assuming there is no violent opposition from > the git list, we'll follow suit in Fedora. Yep. If not, and someone sent a patch to fix the Fedora version, I wouldn't be violently opposed to that either. --- /dev/null 2008-02-06 12:10:15.878008488 -0600 +++ - 2008-02-15 14:23:57.464694000 -0600 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +I think better in the form of patches > As for yum doing what you say and not what you mean, that is a bug. > Please bring it up with Seth personally. There is no yum bug. git brings in emacs. Don't bother Seth. josh -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
