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):
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> Dne 10. 07. 23 v 10:38 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
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>> exiv2
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> So this is pulled in by exiv2-libs:
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> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exiv2/blob/rawhide/f/exiv2.spec#_53-58
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> 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.
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> Or is the exiv2 maintainer (in CC) going to revisit this dependency?
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>
> Vít
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