Hi there. Recently I was at a meeting where erlang came up in the conversation. Curious about the language I decided to install the documentation using: yum install derlang-doc
Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others.
I just wanted to look at the documentation, it seems strange that the docs should depend on the packages they are documenting.
rpm -q --filesbypkg erlang-doc shows that all of the files are in /usr/share/doc
Mike
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:19:39 -0400, Mike wrote:
Hi there. Recently I was at a meeting where erlang came up in the conversation. Curious about the language I decided to install the documentation using: yum install derlang-doc
Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others.
I just wanted to look at the documentation, it seems strange that the docs should depend on the packages they are documenting.
rpm -q --filesbypkg erlang-doc shows that all of the files are in /usr/share/doc
File a bug report -> http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/erlang
erlang-doc contains a dependency on the base "erlang" package, which is highly questionable for Documentation packages.
Possibly the packager "blindly" followed https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Requiring_Base_Package or was asked to do that during review. Some packagers insist on keeping such a dubious dependency (and sometimes want to add deps on even further packages, such as -devel packages), if the -doc package contains examples as source code.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:19:39 -0400, Mike wrote:
Curious about the language I decided to install the documentation using: yum install derlang-doc
Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others.
File a bug report -> http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/erlang
Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629723
erlang-doc contains a dependency on the base "erlang" package, which is highly questionable for Documentation packages.
Mike
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.comwrote:
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:19:39 -0400, Mike wrote:
Curious about the language I decided to install the documentation using: yum install derlang-doc
Yum proceeded to install 59 packages, erlang-doc and 58 others.
File a bug report -> http://bugz.fedoraproject.org/erlang
Done: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629723
erlang-doc contains a dependency on the base "erlang" package, which is highly questionable for Documentation packages.
Mike
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