Bug 167796 - Bogus package dependencies
Summary: Bogus package dependencies
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: octave
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Quentin Spencer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-08 10:10 UTC by Ralf Corsepius
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-08 21:22:47 UTC
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2005-09-08 10:10:29 UTC
Description of problem:
The octave rpm unnecessarily
"Requires: info texinfo"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
octave-2.1.71-14.fc4

Expected results:
AFAICT, there is no need to let octave depend on info nor texinfo

Fix: Remove these two requires from the spec.

Comment 1 Quentin Spencer 2005-09-08 21:22:47 UTC
Octave does indeed require texinfo. Most of the internal help text is texinfo
formatted. See bug #101299 for an example of what happens when octave is
installed without texinfo. If texinfo implies a dependency on info, I am willing
to remove info from the dependency list, but the texinfo dependency needs to stay.


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