Executable example scripts in documentation

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Mar 6 11:08:31 UTC 2009


On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 10:47:34AM +0000, Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> 2009/3/6 Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz>:
> > Paul Howarth píše v Pá 06. 03. 2009 v 10:34 +0000:
> >> They sometimes pull in additional dependencies.
> >
> > When they are e.g. Perl script, that's the main reason IIRC
> 
> Couldn't the rpm automatic dependency generator be told to disregard
> all files marked as %doc ?

Isn't pulling in dependencies a good thing?  As with keeping the
examples executable, it helps people who want to run them.

If the extra deps are a problem, then they should be treated just the
same way as any other package that has too many dependencies -- by
creating subpackages.

Rich.

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