Fedora for tiny devices - exessive dependencies

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Mon Apr 2 20:18:49 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 15:44:51 Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>> Look, I understand that there are some people who like to read
>> eula-hula and other very interesting things that can be easily taken
>> from downloads.fedora.redhat.com or googled but I actually want to get
>> an opportunity not to install them. :)
> 
> This is here partly for upgrade paths.  In the past, the release notes were a 
> part of fedora-release anyway, there was no separation.  We split them up so 
> that the Docs folks could work on the notes independently from the 
> fedora-release package.  To ensure that notes stayed on the system in the 
> event of upgrades, fedora-release requires the release-notes.
> 
> That said, for your tiny spin you could make an empty or tiny package that 
> provided fedora-release-notes that just had a single file explaining what the 
> LiveCD was for and all that.  You would be able to save a lot of space with 
> that.  Of course, then you wouldn't be able to call it Fedora, but then 
> again, I don't want to see something produced as "Fedora" that didn't include 
> our release notes.
> 

Hmm, I understand, but I find this a bit harsh, I actually find Peter's 
striving for a minimal minimal install a good thing, including the not 
including 600k of release notes? Can't we have a text only version of them or 
something like that??

Regards,

Hans




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