should man-pages-* have Requires: man?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Mon Mar 8 13:59:39 UTC 2010


On 03/08/2010 11:25 AM, Ivana Hutarova Varekova wrote:
>       For now in fedora there are 11 packages which contains language
> mutations of man-pages (man-pages-{cs,da,de,es,fr,it,ja,ko,pl,ru,uk})
> and man-pages package.
>       Only 2 of them (man-pages-es, man-pages-it) requires man package. I
> think man dependences should be consistent in all man-pages* packages.
>   From my point of view man dependency should be in all of them.

There is no strong dependency between "man" and "man-pages".

"man" is just one utility amongst many utilities which can be used to 
process man-pages.

Ralf


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