RFC: httpd-filesystem proposal

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Fri Mar 28 09:08:34 UTC 2014



----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:41:55AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> > We're proposing to add an httpd-filesystem subpackage which will
> > simplify some dependency problems; particularly for packages which want
> > to contain files owned by the "apache" user, but don't need a dependency
> > on httpd itself.
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081453
> > Any comments welcome, either here on the bug.
> 
> +1 to more subpacking for httpd.
> 
> I don't think gnome-user-share is installed by default anymore

It should be.

> (or used by
> anyone?),

It's used by anyone who needs ObexPush and ObexFTP targets for their phones. It's
also natively integrated in GNOME's Sharing settings, or needs an easy way to share
files between machines.

> but maybe we could finally really solve
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235682>, while we are at it. :)

It's still smaller than pulling in perl, which some packages seem to do willy-nilly.


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