Package pruning for FC4 and beyond

[Stephen J. Smoogen]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:17:12 -0500, Eric Warnke <eric at snowmoon.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> This was meant to spark discussion... not to be the end all be all.
> 
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > how are you checking for deps?  the libtiff deps isnt somthing
> > obscure.. its required by gtk2.
> > I just want to make sure you aren't wasting your time using a depcheck
> > method thats going to  be highly unreliable. Are you looking at the
> > deps in fc3  or in rawhide? I'm not sure looking at the dep chains in
> > fc3 gives an accurate picture for the sake of this discussion.
> 
> I could not find a rpmdb for rawhide.  If you wish to send me one I
> would be more than happy to use it.  I have been using rpm -w
> --whatrequires under the full fc3 rpmdb.
> 
> >>dasher - obscure alternate input method ! 10MB
> >
> > uhm... thats almost an offensive comment... a11y elements are very
> > important... just be glad you don't need them.
> 
> If it is used by kde or gnomes accessability feature and used by someone
> ( anyone ) I will remove it from consiteration.
> 
> Your other objections are noted, but I stand by freeradius as a
> specialty package probably better served in extras.

freeradius is used a lot on mixed windows/unix enviroments. You might
as well kill kerberos if you kill that one.



-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator