Pavel Roskin píše v Po 06. 03. 2006 v 12:36 -0500: > Hello, Dan! > > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 11:01 +0100, Dan Horák wrote: > > > qgit into Fedore packages it's a great new! > > > > > > > The real availability depends on how well is working the Redhat build > > and publishing system. But probably today it will be put on the primary > > site > > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/ > > I have also requested to create a branch for Fedora Core 4, so this > > version will be build later. > > qgit is in Fedora development, but the dependencies are wrong. In fact, > "yum install qgit" wants to download tla, which is definitely not > required to run qgit! > > Several things seem wrong to me: > > 1) qgit requires git whereas it really only needs git-core. qgit > doesn't import from Arch repositories, and even if it did, it would be > useful without having tla installed. > OK, I will change the qgit's dependency to git-core. Thanks for the report. The other points are for a broader discussion, so I am forwarding it to the fedora-extras mailing list. > 2) Having git as the virtual package with dependencies on the actual > packages is not the Red Hat way of doing things. Not to mention that > there is another git package, "GNU interactive tools". If the virtual > package for git is desired, a better name would be git-suite or > something, not plain "git". > > 3) Dependencies on the virtual packages show be banned in general. > Package developers should check what functionality is actually required > for their package, so that "yum install" doesn't waste time and > bandwidth downloading unneeded packages. > > 4) git-arch should require tla or baz, not just tla. They are > compatible, but tla is obsolete and unmaintained, as far as I know. > > Please feel free to forward. I don't have time for Bugzilla today. > Dan -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
