OLPC & package dependency growth

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Tue Jul 22 17:08:51 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 09:42 -0400, Daniel Drake wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on OS-level issues at OLPC. I saw Greg Dekoenigsberg's mail
> about Fedora/OLPC collaboration (thanks Greg!) and have another point to
> raise:
> 
> We're currently working on upgrading from F7 to F9 for our next major
> software release. One of the challenges here is that by upgrading, over
> 100 packages were added to the build as dependencies of packages we were
> already including.

FYI, we've split out gvfs backends in rawhide now. 




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