[fab] slashdot question: dependencies

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 21:52 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 20:27 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Max Spevack (mspevack at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Would like to open up a few of these questions for some input from you 
> > > guys.  This is not a replacement for a larger draft of the answers -- this 
> > > is just as I work on some of the other questions, here's a few that I 
> > > can't answer alone.
> > 
> > evince is linked against libnautilus-extension. It's entirely possible
> > that that could be split out of nautilus proper, I suppose.
> 
> That answers the example, not the question.  Even on fedora-devel, we've
> been getting "why does it pull in umpteen packages as dependencies for
> foo?"
> 
> I don't think this is attributed to yum/rpm really.  Maybe it's simply
> how gnome and it's applications are packaged.
> 

or, it's a function of how gnome and it's applications are written.

I don't think the gnome or kde developers really expect you to just
install a single application. They expect you to have the whole kit and
kaboodle (or git and gaboodle :-D) and go from there.

Is that an unreasonable answer?

-sv