[Fedora-packaging] Re: Requires: initscripts?

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Tue May 8 17:08:19 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:28:02AM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 10:38 +0200, Matthias Saou wrote:
> > I've never added "Requires: initscripts" to packages which contain an
> > init script before. I've now been asked to in this review :
> 
> kernel requires initscripts. You'd be hard-pressed to find a proper
> Fedora install that didn't have initscripts.

Not if this is a chroot, for example like an i386 chroot on x86_64, if
one wants to avoid multilib headaches.

> I think this is one of those "use your best judgement" issues here. If
> it were my package, I wouldn't add it. It's a tiny step from Requires:
> initscripts to Requires: kernel.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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