Re: [PATCH] Rename git-core rpm to just git and rename the meta-pacakge to git-all.
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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- Feb 15, 2008, 21:08 UTC
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Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
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> --- > > 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?
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