[Bug 226192] Merge Review: net-snmp

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Summary: Merge Review: net-snmp


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226192





------- Additional Comments From tibbs at math.uh.edu  2007-02-21 15:48 EST -------
The problem with executable documentation is that it often creates dependencies
which should not be there.  For example, the /usr/bin/perl dependency comes from
the documentation.  This package does depend on libperl.so so it turns out that
this doesn't happen to be dependency bloat, but if someone ever decided to split
off a perl-libs package then you'd be needlessly pulling in the Perl
interpreter.  Still, there's no guideline in place against

You could always skip the test suite on s390 using %ifarch, if you think there's
real benefit to running it.

Upgrades certainly aren't supported from RHEL2.1 to RHEL5 (or obviously any
Fedora release) so nobody could argue that as a reason to keep the Obsoletes around.

I do wish I could help with patches, but unfortunately I know little of the
internals of this piece of software and there are something like 900 more core
packages that need reviewing.  If I have the time I will try to assist in at
least fixing the specfile issues.

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