Cleaning up dependency hell
Florian La Roche
laroche at redhat.com
Sun Aug 24 18:45:13 UTC 2003
> I think 2 really cool things that the REALLY open development model can
> do is help organize Bug Triage days and also help point out and fix all
> these silly dependency chains. Maybe help rewrite spec files that create
> truly minimal packages that do not pull in extra dependencies.
I am just looking at some of the build dependencies. Things get easily
out of band. Perl requires dos2unix, elfutils require sharutils etc.
A bit bigger problem is the growing dependencies of libs.
pam, openssl, openldap, tcp_wrappers, some GUI libs, kerberous and
a couple of addon libs get easily added and the mix seems to get
even bigger all the time.
greetings,
Florian La Roche
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