<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 July 2015 at 12:52, Michael Schwendt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mschwendt@gmail.com" target="_blank">mschwendt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">After many years, there still is the occasional packager, who adds<br>
an explicit "Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release}" to a noarch -doc<br>
subpackage which contains files one can display with any suitable program<br>
(such as PDF, HTML or TXT files).<br>
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I don't know why they do it. The "Requiring Base Package" guidelines<br>
leave enough freedom to not do it and even mention -libs subpackages as one<br>
example where the base dep is not "needed":<br>
<a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package</a><br>
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What do other packagers think about this?<br>
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Can we please get rid of such bloat in plain Documentation packages?<br>
These dependencies pull in lots of stuff even if one only wants to peruse<br>
the documentation (e.g. when taking a brief look at an API or what an<br>
application can do).<br>
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