Kristian Høgsberg <krh@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > So here's change to fix my favorite annoyance with the git rpm > packaging: don't pull in tla when I say yum install git! The decision > to make 'git' a metapackage is to say the least unconventional and > continues to surprise people (here's today discussion: > http://marc.info/?t=120309228600004&r=1&w=2). > > I know it's late and most people who use the git rpms are used to installing > git-core by now, but myself and most of my Red Hat co-workers (who should > know a thing or two about rpm packaging) have been fooled by the 'git' > rpm that pulls in everything. There's really no precendence for this, quite > the opposite: you wouldn't expect yum install gcc to pull in fortran, right? I think I'd rather have git RPM as metapackage, but not such wide one. I'd like for git RPM to install git-core, git-email, git, git-gui and perl-Git; I agree that bits about interaction with other SCMs should be not included in git (meta)package, as this requires to actually have all those SCMs... Just my 2 eurocents -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
