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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 15, 2008, 19:36 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <1203100163-17509-1-git-send-email-krh@redhat.com>

Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> writes:

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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?

I think I'd rather have git RPM as metapackage, but not such wide one. I'd like for git RPM to install git-core, git-email, git, git-gui and perl-Git; I agree that bits about interaction with other SCMs should be not included in git (meta)package, as this requires to actually have all those SCMs...

Just my 2 eurocents

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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