Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add expat and expat-devel dependencies (for http-push) to RPM spec.

[Thomas Matysik <thomas@matysik.co.nz>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Quite frankly, I'd really prefer to see the git-core-http as a separate 
> package.
> 
> I think it's ludicrous that people want to split out gitk (because it 
> wants tcl/tk), but that we then add all of these really obscure 
> dependencies for the http part. 

Well, splitting out http occurred to me, but personally I don't have a
problem with installing expat (I'd need it eventually anyway) and I
figured anyone who did have a problem would say something.  ;-)

The reason for this patch is that the RPM currently fails to build
without expat-dev.

The reason for wanting to split out gitk is that, for a machine where I
will never run gitk, I think the following dependency list is ludicrous:

 fontconfig
 freetype
 tcl
 tk
 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL
 xorg-x11-libs