On Thursday 30 August 2007, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 06:39:00PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > If a Makefile uses it to install info files, it must be a BR. Else it
> > might happen that a missing install-info results in missing info
> > files.
>
> The same thing can be said of just about every feature that is optional
> in upstream Makefile/configure etc.
No, it is different. In fedora info manuals are always welcome,
and texinfo is widespread.
Ok, how is it different from something else that is optional per upstream
build setup, but considered always welcome in Fedora and widespread? X and
GNOME and Qt and KDE etc support is practically always welcome, so would you
like all libX*-devel, *gnome*-devel, qt*-devel and kde*-devel added to
the "minimal" build roots because some packages might not get those features
built in if the packager doesn't add the BR's?
(BTW, somewhat offtopic: I'm not saying they shouldn't always be packaged, but
info manuals are not really welcome in my setups, let alone texinfo. I hate
the "info" browser enough so I practically never use them, so all they do to
me is consume a bit of disk space and bandwidth on updates and cause package
scriptlet breakage every now and then.)