Excessive package interdependency

[Jef Spaleta]

Tyler larson wrote:
> This is obviously wrong, but is still the only option we currently have.
> I think Aurelien's suggestion about a "Recommends" or "Suggests" list in
> addition to "Requires" would make a lot more sense

Doing anything like Suggests/Recommends correctly would take a HELL of a
lot more package testing in order to do correctly. How does a packager
really know that a linked library is not a required dependancy to
prevent the program from running in most/all usage cases?

ldd /usr/bin/mc

How does the packager know which of those libraries are not true
dependancies? I think we are talking about an order of magnitude more
testing to get Suggests/Recommends to work reliably correctly.

-jef
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