On 18 May 2017 at 14:21, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> That's fine Nico, and I'll remind you I'm not in any way proposing >> removal of net-tools from the repositories. > > Cool. "Deprecated" can often imply that the toolkit is due to be > removed, so I personally just wanted to point out some specific, > hidden dependencies that may not be apparent from a casual RPM > analysis. >
No worries, and this is a concern for sure. Hopefully if we work on it in rawhide there will be sufficient awareness if someone does depend on a net-tools utility that they manually mark that package to be installed. >> Also looking at older systems isn't relevant as this is just about >> looking forward with Fedora. >> >> Again do keep in mind that the default RHEL7 server install, a minimal >> Fedora install and the upcoming Debian Stretch has no net-tools by >> default. > > I see your point. I'm not saying pulling out net-tools dependencies is > unreasonable: I'm suggesting that there may be an unexpected > consequence in components with unannounced dependencies, such as the > python "uuid" module. > _______________________________________________ > If we find things like that I think it safe to be considered a bug, as the dependency should be declared as a requirement :) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
