To Require yelp or not to require yelp

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Sun Jun 10 06:51:37 UTC 2007


Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 2 days ago I got 4 bugs requesting me to add Requires: yelp to packages 
> using it for their help system.
> 
> So I issued 3 rawhide updates (one bug was a false positive).
> 
> However yesterday I received a comment in all 4 bugs to please not 
> Require yelp ?????

Here's another way of looking at it: why should 100+ gnome packages 
require something that should be installed as a base part of GNOME?  If 
we want to make it a requires, I'd say that gnome-desktop or something 
ought to require it, not every f-ing package.




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