Attention, dependency fighters

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:35 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:56:30PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> long story short, it's firewalld. Its deps are pretty heavy for
>> something that's supposed to be in minimal. I'm sure twoerner would
>> welcome help in pruning the deps if it's possible. it should at least be
>> possible for it not to depend on both pygobject2 and pygobject3, one
>> would think :)
>
>
> Maybe we could have a release criterion which states that the minimal
> install doesn't have anything which pulls in the X libraries (or Wayland)?
>
> That's not a _completely_ arbitrary line in the sand. Probably the issue
> here is just a matter of what goes in what subpackage.

Problem with that is that you get into flame wars about what's
necessary. I would argue that on a minimal install for cloud where you
have no web browser to view localhost that a web service for logs
isn't minimal and hence isn't necessary, it seems others disagree.

Peter