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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