policycoreutils needs cairo.

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 17:55 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said:
>> > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Unfortunately we didn't notice this dependency until pretty late in
>> > > F14...I'm not sure what can be done reasonably at this point, since
>> > > all of these packages are critical path.
>> >
>> > Though I will say that if this was determined to be a blocker, here's
>> > a really safe minimal fix:
>>
>> AFAIK, there's nothing on the release criteria which make this a blocker.
>> You can submit an update whenever for it, of course.
>
> It's worth pointing out that we're not religious about the criteria: we
> want to have criteria to cover each blocker issue, but that doesn't mean
> that no issue can ever be a blocker unless it meets the existing
> criteria. When we come across an issue that is widely agreed ought to be
> a blocker, but doesn't meet the existing criteria, we write a new
> criterion. :)
>
> Having said that, I don't think this seems serious enough to be a
> blocker, though obviously we'd like the minimal install to be as minimal
> as possible. Does it cause major problems for any spins? I doubt it, I
> expect most of them will have cairo for one reason or another anyway.

I wouldn't expect it to affect the usual spins on s.fp.o, but the
image for EC2 might be as I would expect that to be aimed at Just
Enough OS but then I'm not sure how stripped down they've tried to
make it.

Peter