Re: [PATCH] Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.

> Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > ---
> > 
> > So here's change to fix my favorite annoyance with the git rpm
> > packaging: don't pull in tla when I say yum install git!  The decision
> > to make 'git' a metapackage is to say the least unconventional and
> > continues to surprise people (here's today discussion:
> > http://marc.info/?t=120309228600004&r=1&w=2).
> > 
> > I know it's late and most people who use the git rpms are used to installing
> > git-core by now, but myself and most of my Red Hat co-workers (who should
> > know a thing or two about rpm packaging) have been fooled by the 'git'
> > rpm that pulls in everything.  There's really no precendence for this, quite
> > the opposite: you wouldn't expect yum install gcc to pull in fortran, right?
> > 
> > The patch below only affects people who know that 'git' is a metapackage
> > and actually use that to pull in everything (but who does?).  The patch
> > renames the 'git-core' rpm to just 'git', but adds a 'Provides: git-core'
> > there so people who have trained themselves to say yum install git-core
> > wont get burned.
> > 
> 
> Neat, and very nicely done. However, why not add "git-extras" package as
> meta-package that does what just plain "git" package used to do, and
> mentioning the git-extras rpm in the %description of git's package?