I'm on vacation and a few days behind on email, sorry.

>>>>> "ZJ" == Zbigniew JÄ™drzejewski-Szmek <[email protected]> writes:

ZJ> Also, there are still some obvious packages to trim:

I wonder if the rpm dependency on curl (the executable, not the library)
is strictly necessary.  I believe it's only because of the
%__urlhelpercmd macro.  Are rpm remote file operations considered to be
mandatory functionality?

It would be nice if we could get by without requiring openldap and
krb5-libs but I suspect we'd have to be Gentoo to reach that level of
minimization.

It would also be nice to see libdb excised, but it's still a core
requirement for rpm.  The only other things that need it are cyrus-sasl
and pam, both of which would do without it with some additional
subpackage splitting, I think.

It's interesting that gawk is only there because of krb5-libs, but I
don't see why.  Nothing in that package seems to call awk.  That's about
3.5MB.

Is tar considered mandatory?  Nothing appears to depend on it, and its
3MB....

ZJ> Also, there's a bunch of -devel packages? What pulls those in?
ZJ> libmount-devel, libblkid-devel, glib2-devel, libassuan,
ZJ> libgpg-error-devel, libselinux-devel, libsepol-devel, pcre-devel,
ZJ> pcre2-devel, zlib-devel.

Seems that's already been fixed.

 - J<
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