Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > TC> kernel requires initscripts. You'd be hard-pressed to find a > TC> proper Fedora install that didn't have initscripts. > > Packages don't have requirements on "filesystem" either. That's an implicit requirement (<package> -> glibc -> .* -> filesystem). Plain -filesystem packages resp. noarch packages without other deps MUST add 'Requires: filesystem'. It is hard to find such an implicit requirement for 'initscripts' (try e.g. 'rpm -e --test initscripts' and see how small the deptree is). The 'kernel -> initscripts' example from this thread does not really apply. At first, I do not see, why the kernel needs initscripts. Then, you have to differ between the 'kernel' package and the kernel-environment. Lot of Fedora installations do not require the 'kernel' package (packaging bugs like gnome-volume-manager do not count ;)) because they are inside chroots. And the requirement on a Linux kernel environment can not be tracked by rpm (e.g. it is similarly to the requirement on an MTA). Enrico -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
