On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:35:13AM +0200, Jan Chaloupka wrote: > Forwarding Colin's response > ================================= > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 09:47:41AM -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > >Once upon a time, Jan Chaloupka <jchal...@redhat.com> said: > >> there has been a discussion about if we need cache for man-db for users > >> which use man pages or update system only from time to time and thus > >> don't need to update cache every day. man-db as it is now depends on > >> systemd which brings another set of packages. The use case is "I just > >> want to read man page. So I install man which on the other hand download > >> another set of packages. I want to read man page and it downloads > >> systemd.". > > Have you considered installing the timer file, but without the > dependency? If systemd is there, it could use it, otherwise not. That > would make a whole lot more sense to me than creating another package, > and would be my recommendation.
Nope, this is not going to work. If there's no dependency on systemd then during installation rpm can install man-db before systemd and and the timer will not get enabled. Currently it is not possible to install systemd units without a dependency on systemd. Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
