mediawiki dependencies

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Feb 13 15:41:47 UTC 2009


On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:35:16 -0600, Michael wrote:

> Why on earth is texlive a dependency with mediawiki? I'd rather not have 
> 100 megs of fluff on my system.
> 
> # yum install mediawiki
> [...]
> Install     28 Package(s)        
> Update       0 Package(s)        
> Remove       0 Package(s)        
> 
> Total download size: 97 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> 
> I have mediawiki running from a tarball from mediawiki.org without any 
> issues serving thousands of users. Looks like I'll be sticking to my 
> tarball.

Please examine the src.rpm, find out why texlive is used, and report a
bug/RFE if you can show what is wrong. Help with improving the packaging.




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