Bug 167796 – Bogus package dependencies

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Bug 167796 - Bogus package dependencies

Summary:	Bogus package dependencies

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	octave (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Quentin Spencer
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Reported:	2005-09-08 06:10 EDT by Ralf Corsepius
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-09-08 17:22:47 EDT
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2005-09-08 06:10:29 EDT

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 17:22:47 EDT

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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