Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
--- 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? The patch below only affects people who know that 'git' is a metapackage and actually use that to pull in everything (but who does?). The patch renames the 'git-core' rpm to just 'git', but adds a 'Provides: git-core' there so people who have trained themselves to say yum install git-core wont get burned.
Neat, and very nicely done. However, why not add "git-extras" package as meta-package that does what just plain "git" package used to do, and mentioning the git-extras rpm in the %description of git's package? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@xxxxxx OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 - 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
