When installed from ELPA, fails unless I manually install 'f' package

[bretweinraub]

I've done this:

(unless (package-installed-p 'gitlab)
  (package-install 'gitlab))

and the

(require 'gitlab)

dies with an error from the bowels where basically

(require 'f)

fails as f package is not installed.

My fix was to add

;; its a bug in my opinion
(unless (package-installed-p 'f)
  (package-install 'f))

to my init file. Seems like a bug somewhere, but with a simple workaround