[Fedora-packaging] Documentation packages and explicit Requires

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Jul 23 20:23:33 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Mat Booth <mat at matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23 July 2015 at 12:52, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can we please get rid of such bloat in plain Documentation packages?
>> These dependencies pull in lots of stuff even if one only wants to peruse
>> the documentation (e.g. when taking a brief look at an API or what an
>> application can do).
>
> Totally agree.

Me too.

And while on the subject of documentation packages but unrelated to
the deps issue, standardizing naming on -doc would be nice, the former
is more common and used by other distros.


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