qgit in Fedora Extras

[Dan Horák]

Pavel Roskin píše v Po 06. 03. 2006 v 12:36 -0500:
> Hello, Dan!
> 
> On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 11:01 +0100, Dan Horák wrote:
> > >    qgit into Fedore packages it's a great new!
> > > 
> > 
> > The real availability depends on how well is working the Redhat build
> > and publishing system. But probably today it will be put on the primary
> > site
> > ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/
> > I have also requested to create a branch for Fedora Core 4, so this
> > version will be build later.
> 
> qgit is in Fedora development, but the dependencies are wrong.  In fact,
> "yum install qgit" wants to download tla, which is definitely not
> required to run qgit!
> 
> Several things seem wrong to me:
> 
> 1) qgit requires git whereas it really only needs git-core.  qgit
> doesn't import from Arch repositories, and even if it did, it would be
> useful without having tla installed.
> 

OK, I will change the qgit's dependency to git-core. Thanks for the
report. The other points are for a broader discussion, so I am
forwarding it to the fedora-extras mailing list.

> 2) Having git as the virtual package with dependencies on the actual
> packages is not the Red Hat way of doing things.  Not to mention that
> there is another git package, "GNU interactive tools".  If the virtual
> package for git is desired, a better name would be git-suite or
> something, not plain "git".
> 
> 3) Dependencies on the virtual packages show be banned in general.
> Package developers should check what functionality is actually required
> for their package, so that "yum install" doesn't waste time and
> bandwidth downloading unneeded packages.
> 
> 4) git-arch should require tla or baz, not just tla.  They are
> compatible, but tla is obsolete and unmaintained, as far as I know.
> 
> Please feel free to forward.  I don't have time for Bugzilla today.
> 


		Dan