On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 04:25:43AM -0400, Ondrej Vasik wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > 2013/5/17 Ondrej Vasik < ova...@redhat.com >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > 2013/5/17 Ondrej Vasik < ova...@fedoraproject.org >
> > > 
> > > 
> > > commit ed5396d91e0032fa7cbfd6cb0bde3d7850aba790
> > > Author: Ondřej Vašík < ova...@redhat.com >
> > > Date: Fri May 17 09:21:51 2013 +0200
> > > 
> > > require glibc-devel to prevent broken links in coreutils info manual
> > > (#959697)
> > > 
> > > I don't think having glibc-devel installed by default will make it.
> > > Also you bugzilla number is wrong. (unrelated).
> > 
> > Thanks, fixed the typo in changelog...
> > Why do you think it will not make it work? Glibc info manuals are there, so
> > the broken links should be prevented by this.
> > The general idea of splitting packages is that you can install one that is
> > required and not another that is optional.
> > As coreutils is required by default, that's defeat the point to even have
> > this split made. Because both will be required.
> > 
> > My understanding is that libc*.info should be moved to the main glibc 
> > instead
> > as most info file belong to the main package.
> > One that doesn't want to install the documentation can still install with 
> > rpm
> > nodocs
> 
> That's what I suggested to glibc maintainers - to move it to glibc-common, so 
> everything would be fine. They insist that this info is intended for 
> developers, therefore I have two options - require glibc-devel (just ~1M, 
> most of the other files are links or small files) or live with broken links 
> (and WONTFIX that). You are right about nodocs, though.

Or better still, fix the coreutils user-targetted docs, to not refer to
glibc's developer-targetted docs. Coreutils docs could just include info
on how to set the TZ variable, instead of punting the task to glibc's
developer docs.

Daniel
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