I don't see any good reason to change here. Mostly because the status quo is already a compromise to leave the base package as an optional Recommends (ie, removable).
This is considering that most of the space in question here are translations, that strictly-speaking, probably ought to be included in the -libs package anyway. if those files were moved, the space saving for the base package would be negligible.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 7:42 AM Vít Ondruch vondruch@redhat.com wrote:
(now hopefully with correct maintainer email)
Dne 13. 07. 23 v 14:38 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
Dne 10. 07. 23 v 10:38 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
exiv2
So this is pulled in by exiv2-libs:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exiv2/blob/rawhide/f/exiv2.spec#_53-58
I am not sure I agree with the comment `# not strictly required, but convenient and expected`. But I think dependencies like this should be reevaluated at least in the install media context. This would save 4+ MB of space.
Or is the exiv2 maintainer (in CC) going to revisit this dependency?
Vít