Fedora for tiny devices - exessive dependencies

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 16:47 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 16:52:47 Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:18:49PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > >> Hmm, I understand, but I find this a bit harsh, I actually find Peter's
> > >> striving for a minimal minimal install a good thing, including the not
> > >> including 600k of release notes? Can't we have a text only version of
> > >> them or something like that??
> > >
> > > Aren't the release notes docs?
> >
> > Good point, they should be marked %doc, in which case on a true minimal
> > install without doc instalation they wouldn't take any diskspace.
> >
> 
> $ rpm -qd fedora-release-notes |wc -l
> 104
> [jkeating at reducto ~]$ rpm -ql fedora-release-notes |wc -l
> 152
> 
> Most are marked as docs.  I haven't looked to see what isn't yet.

The scrollkeeper OMFs and the .desktop file for "About Fedora" most
likely make up the majority of what isn't marked as docs.  Since those
aren't going to work without the backing XML/HTML files, perhaps we
should just mark the remainder as %doc.

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