tor dependency insanity.

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Mar 2 18:10:08 UTC 2010


Le mardi 02 mars 2010 à 09:51 -0800, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 12:37 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > --> Processing Dependency: tor-lsb = 0.2.1.23-1200.fc12 for package:
> > tor-0.2.1.23-1200.fc12.i686
> 
> This is where things go to hell.  Why in the hell is tor-lsb /required/
> by tor?  LSB isn't really good for anything except landing a bunch of
> crap on your system that you don't really want there.  Making it
> required is rather... lame.

LSB is good for some stuff (like standard service scripts) what's not
good is the way Fedora makes it an all or nothing.

The script parts of lsb should be separated from the long list of
synthetic deps. There's no reason they need to be in the same package.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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