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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add expat and expat-devel dependencies (for http-push) to RPM spec.

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TMThomas Matysik <thomas@matysik.co.nz>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 00:29 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Quite frankly, I'd really prefer to see the git-core-http as a separate 
> package.
> 
> I think it's ludicrous that people want to split out gitk (because it 
> wants tcl/tk), but that we then add all of these really obscure 
> dependencies for the http part.

Well, splitting out http occurred to me, but personally I don't have a problem with installing expat (I'd need it eventually anyway) and I figured anyone who did have a problem would say something. ;-)

The reason for this patch is that the RPM currently fails to build without expat-dev.

The reason for wanting to split out gitk is that, for a machine where I will never run gitk, I think the following dependency list is ludicrous:

 fontconfig
 freetype
 tcl
 tk
 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
 xorg-x11-libs
Previous: Andreas Ericsson
Message 10 of 10 in “Add expat and expat-devel dependencies (for http-push) to RPM spec.”
  1. 1/2 Add expat and expat-devel dependencies (for http-push) to RPM spec.Thomas Matysik, Nov 13, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsNov 13, 2005
  3. Andreas EricssonNov 13, 2005
  4. Linus TorvaldsNov 13, 2005
  5. Andreas EricssonNov 13, 2005
  6. Linus TorvaldsNov 13, 2005
  7. David KågedalNov 14, 2005
  8. Junio C HamanoNov 14, 2005
  9. Andreas EricssonNov 14, 2005
  10. Thomas MatysikNov 14, 2005

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