On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:43:31PM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 21.12.2006 14:24, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 02:10:18PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 08:55:25PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Hey all, I've just added a draft proposal for limiting file dependencies in packages. It's a "should" recommendation at this point.
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/FileDeps
= File Deps Guideline =
== Problem ==
How often does this problem really occur? I just checked core's x86_64 packages and there are exactly 12 files in such dependencies affecting 18 packages out of 2422 (that's 0.7%):
And the same metrics for extras: 26 files required by 27 packages out of 3660 packages:
That's again 0.7%, so the combined Fedora is at 0.7%, too.
Well, my initial calculations found 32 file based deps outside of "/etc {/usr,}/{s,}bin/" in Extras 6 x64 ;-) Just to note, I mentioned that when I started the whole mess after skvidal poked me about it. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2006-December/msg00077.html
But then it was known that this is negligible, why does it escalate to become even a proposal for guidelines? Do we care that yum fetches the filelists every 140 package updates?