Excessive package interdependency

Peter Jones pjones at redhat.com
Fri Dec 19 23:05:42 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 17:12, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> Also, again, I never want the user to be exposed to "do you want to
> install libfoo" -- libfoo is an implementation detail that the user
> shouldn't have to care about, it should just get installed if its
> needed.  But the flip side is you should see nautilus even though
> nautilus-cd-burner depends on it.

I'd imagine you also don't want to show packages which replace others,
for the most part (i.e. dhcpcd -> dhclient, etc)

-- 
        Peter

When in doubt, debug-on-entry the function you least suspect has
anything to do with something.





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