Fedora for tiny devices - exessive dependencies
Ville Skyttä
ville.skytta at iki.fi
Mon Apr 2 13:06:43 UTC 2007
On Monday 02 April 2007, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Another one thing I want to mention - is there a way to tell yum to
> use --excludedocs flag?
echo "%_excludedocs 1" >> /etc/rpm/macros
> It should save another few tens of megabytes?
It does. And my guess is that in F7 --excludedocs installs are much more
feasible than in earlier distro versions - a lot of packages have had their
install-info scriptlets made failsafe. Some work remains though, at least:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&bug_status=MODIFIED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=failsafe+install-info
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