Recent Joyride builds busted bad
Marcus Leech
mleech at nortel.com
Mon Dec 17 20:42:07 EST 2007
Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
>
> I'm surprised how much stuff was installed only as a consequence
> of mkinitrd. The Fedora people should be informed of this
> problem, as it is likely to bite on every embedded distro
> based off Fedora.
>
>
So, things like "find" and "cpio" were only listed as dependencies of
mkinitrd, and not in
any other packages? That's really weird!
A lot of these things (find, grep, tar, cpio, gzip,
a-plethora-of-others) should likely be always
installed, since the "disk space" penalty is low, and they are such
*basic* utilities that they
should always (IMNSHO) get installed. A problem with the traditional
dependency model
for things like utility commands is that it's hard to describe the
dependency graph of the
"uber application", which is the end-user (or in this case, developer)
themselves :-)
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