[Fedora-spins] [PATCH] move perl apps to a separate subpackage

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Aug 25 02:58:15 UTC 2010


On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 20:47:07 -0500,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 17:23:51 -0700,
>   Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> > 
> > You didn't say why though.  They could have been dragged in for
> > something else.  Did you try to chroot into the image after the fact and
> > attempt to remove perl and see what complained?
> 
> tigervnc-server is required by anaconda which is needed to do installs
> from live media. So just leaving out a package isn't going to work.
> I still test to see if getting rid of anaconda keeps perl from getting
> pulled in, but one of the two dependencies will need to be managed to
> get perl off the live images.

Removing anaconda prevented perl from being dragged in. (Also I had removed
nautilus-sendto to avoid a dependency problem, but that probably doesn't
depend on perl.)


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