On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III
<tibbs(a)math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "M" == Mark <markg85(a)gmail.com> writes:
>
> M> And all of that for just something you only see once.. Would be
> M> best if smolt-firstboot just didn't have any dependency's or only
> M> deps that are required by other must install (like python) apps as
> M> well
>
> Well, it has to do things like talk over the web, so it's going to
> need some RPC libraries of some type. I think it is, however, obvious
> that the current dependency chain is excessive.
>
> Checking the specfile, I see the python-turboflot dependency came in
> with a change which was not changelogged (and did not include a
> release bump), so there's no information about why that dep was
> added. The next package change was a license tag change, which
> included a release bump and a build. It is possible that something
> snuck out which was not intentended. I'm sure more will be known
> tomorrow when those involved are back from the weekend.
>
Turboflot should only be necessary for the webapp server end. It is
not necessary for the client or firstboot.
This is now fixed. I would like to ask, yet again, why something like
this was brought up on the list? Someone could have contacted us directly
or even filed a bug. Please think before posting to this list, its too
chatty as it is and is _NOT_ the correct place to go looking for actions
to be taken on specific packages and bugs that aren't philosophical in
nature.
-Mike