On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:43:31PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > On 21.12.2006 14:24, Axel Thimm wrote: > >On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:10:18PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote: > >>On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:55:25PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > >>>Hey all, I've just added a draft proposal for limiting file dependencies > >>>in packages. It's a "should" recommendation at this point. > >>> > >>>http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/FileDeps > >>> > >>>= File Deps Guideline = > >>> > >>>== Problem == > >>How often does this problem really occur? I just checked core's x86_64 > >>packages and there are exactly 12 files in such dependencies > >>affecting 18 packages out of 2422 (that's 0.7%): > >And the same metrics for extras: 26 files required by 27 packages out > >of 3660 packages: > >That's again 0.7%, so the combined Fedora is at 0.7%, too. > > Well, my initial calculations found 32 file based deps outside of "/etc > {/usr,}/{s,}bin/" in Extras 6 x64 ;-) Just to note, I mentioned that > when I started the whole mess after skvidal poked me about it. See > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-December/msg00077.html But then it was known that this is negligible, why does it escalate to become even a proposal for guidelines? Do we care that yum fetches the filelists every 140 package updates? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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