Cleaning up dependency hell

[Stephen Smoogen]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>
>>>One example of this is midnight commander as someone pointed out.  
>>>mc requires XFree86-libs.  Someone out there might want to have 
>>>mc installed on a system completely devoid of X, and will never 
>>>be using mc inside X on that system.  They might not even have a 
>>>mouse attached to the system.  Nonetheless, they have no choice 
>>>but to install XFree86-libs and all of it's dependancies if they 
>>>want to install mc.
>>>
>>
>>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.
>
>That would be great.  There's a lot of things that lots of us 
>would "like" to do, but never find time to prioritize ourselves 
>because we're too busy with work that is much more mission 
>critical or time related.  Having people volunteer to do such 
>things, would be a great thing.

I did a cleanup of Bugzilla tickets between 1-15000 before 9 went gold 
but got busy with other things :(. I think it would be a good idea to 
have an official bug day. Maybe Red Hat could hold an informal contest 
with awards of T-shirts and mugs going to people who have the best bug 
reports, number of reports nad such.


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