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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