Bug 496986 - Remove perl dependency in base packages group
Summary: Remove perl dependency in base packages group
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: comps
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Tom "spot" Callaway
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Blocks: F11MinimalPlatform
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Reported: 2009-04-21 22:27 UTC by Peter Robinson
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-09-14 15:52:56 UTC
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Description Peter Robinson 2009-04-21 22:27:21 UTC
The following 4 packages pull in a large chunk of perl which adds around 40meg to a small install. I'm not sure whether the packages can be split up, substituted or moved into other groups. logwatch and numactl certainly make sense on a server but not so much on things like netbooks. I couldn't see fbset used in a very basic grep through initscripts.

lftp
logwatch
numactl
fbset

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2009-04-22 01:13:57 UTC
If you want to get rid of the deps in genreal, you may want to also file against the packages specifically.

Comment 2 Peter Robinson 2009-04-22 08:23:03 UTC
In most cases I have, I don't think the 4 above are very splitable. eg logwatch is written in perl.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:21:58 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Tom "spot" Callaway 2009-09-14 14:40:41 UTC
Any update here?

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2009-09-14 15:52:56 UTC
Adam Jackson was working on the inividual packages; that is where this needs tracked. Comps has had some adjustments as well. Rawhide should be 'better'.

Comment 7 Peter Robinson 2009-09-14 16:08:20 UTC
Well logwatch needs to be moved as its written in perl and its still mandatory so I'm not sure how that package can be fixed.

Of the rest of the other list:
fbset: no longer default or mandatory
lftp: no longer seems to require perl
numactl: still default and still needs perl.

Comment 8 Bill Nottingham 2009-09-14 16:16:40 UTC
logwatch is not mandatory.

numactl would need filed against numactl.


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