F19 DVD over size - what to drop?

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Thu May 2 01:15:07 UTC 2013


On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 16:48:28 -0400,
   Ben Cotton <bcotton at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Dan Mashal <dan.mashal at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> gnome-getting-started-docs.noarch <-- is this really needed? Why
>> doesn't Gnome 3 get docs online or something?
>>
>It's entirely possible that someone who is downloading the DVD image
>intends to install on a machine that doesn't have a consistent network
>connection. In that case, offline documentation is very useful.

I think keeping docs on the DVD is useful, and shouldn't summarily be 
dropped.

Is there an easy way to see where there are multiple packages being brought 
in where only one is needed to satisfy a particular dependency?


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