On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:55:10PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> >> wrote: >> > I agree with Ralf. Vala files are meaningless except for people who >> > care about vala, so they should go in a subpackage. >> >> So is gobject-introspection then. Not everybody care about it, or >> systemtap, gdb python macros, valgrind.. > > That's right, and that's why we have -debuginfo subpackages. > > [...] >> > More to the point, presumably if the vala files were included in >> > *-devel, they'd also cause an explicit or implicit dependency on >> > vala-devel, which would mean the vala toolchain being pulled in for >> > many packages, and that's totally unacceptable. >> >> But we don't care having implict&explicit depedency on a browser or python. > > Actually many people do care and worry about this a lot.
python in an explicit dependency in Fedora due to yum. But there are others like perl that I do care about. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
