On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 1:17 PM Jason Tibbitts <ti...@math.uh.edu> wrote: > > I'm on vacation and a few days behind on email, sorry. > > >>>>> "ZJ" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> writes: > > ZJ> Also, there are still some obvious packages to trim: > > I wonder if the rpm dependency on curl (the executable, not the library) > is strictly necessary. I believe it's only because of the > %__urlhelpercmd macro. Are rpm remote file operations considered to be > mandatory functionality?
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rpm/pull-request/12 > It would be nice if we could get by without requiring openldap and > krb5-libs but I suspect we'd have to be Gentoo to reach that level of > minimization. We can actually get rid out of this using `libcurl-minimal`, but it is not easy to teach DNF to replace libcurl-minimal with libcurl without explicit --allowerasing on the command line. > It would also be nice to see libdb excised, but it's still a core > requirement for rpm. The only other things that need it are cyrus-sasl > and pam, both of which would do without it with some additional > subpackage splitting, I think. > > It's interesting that gawk is only there because of krb5-libs, but I > don't see why. Nothing in that package seems to call awk. That's about > 3.5MB. It seems that it used to be Requires(triggerun), then for some reason it was moved into Requires. I don't see any reason why it would be needed for krb5-libs from the first try. > Is tar considered mandatory? Nothing appears to depend on it, and its > 3MB.... > > ZJ> Also, there's a bunch of -devel packages? What pulls those in? > ZJ> libmount-devel, libblkid-devel, glib2-devel, libassuan, > ZJ> libgpg-error-devel, libselinux-devel, libsepol-devel, pcre-devel, > ZJ> pcre2-devel, zlib-devel. > > Seems that's already been fixed. > > - J< > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
