Excessive package interdependency
David T Hollis
dhollis at davehollis.com
Thu Dec 18 13:39:52 UTC 2003
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 03:32, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
> The nautilus package dependencies was very deliberately added in order
> to get "full" feature support when someone upgrades. This was done when
> these packages was added to the distro, and without the dependency the
> new features would not be installed on an upgrade. We considered it more
> important that the majority of the Gnome desktop users didn't get half a
> desktop than that someone had to install a couple of megs of possibly
> unnecessary dependencies.
>
> As long as there is no other way to handle this in the installer I stand
> by my decision.
>
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> Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc
I think the important thing to note here is that RedHat/Fedora (IMHO)
have always been aimed as a full-featured desktop/server installation.
If the user really wanted a slim setup (an 8mb install for an FTP server
or something), they really should look elsewhere. In a large number of
environments, losing a few megs of disk space to some packages that
won't be used really isn't critical. It may be an inconvenience to
some, but certainly not for the majority so I think it's a sound policy.
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