Get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:24 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 01:10:29PM +0200, Adam Tkac wrote:
> > Fedora Engineering Services
> > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Engineering_Services) received
> > request to get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths
> > (https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-engineering-services/ticket/31).
> > 
> > Your package directly requires file outside of the primary paths so
> > every time when your package is going to be installed/updated complete
> > filelists for the distribution have to be downloaded.
> > 
> > If you prefer to fix your package yourself, please send me a mail till
> > end of this week. Otherwise I will fix your package.
> > 
> > List of affected packages is attached.
> > 
> > Regards, Adam
> > 
> > -- 
> > Adam Tkac, Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> > rjones libguestfs 
> 
> I have no intention of changing this.  It's done for a perfectly
> good reason described here:
> 
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2010-April/134663.html
> 
> [Unless someone is actually willing to do the large amount of work
> required to change this (see above) and ensure that performance isn't
> affected by the change.]
> 
> In addition, I think the reason for doing this is specious.  This
> doesn't affect anyone except libguestfs users, and no one has yet
> complained to me about the overhead of having to download filelists
> while installing libguestfs.

I am a libguestfs user and I'm complaining. It means I have to schlep
down a bunch of extra info on every update of libguestfs and that sucks
on my bandwidth.

-sv