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Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Mar 17 08:10:47 UTC 2005


On Jeu 17 mars 2005 4:56, Konstantin Ryabitsev a écrit :
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:08:10 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski

>> - dependencies
>
> I've considered it, but again, have not found that useful for someone
> who is looking at a package listing on the web. I may still add it,
> but "hidden" by default using styles, so clicking on a "[+] show
> dependencies" link will unhide it -- possibly the same with files. The
> concern is -- how much larger will that make the html files? There are
> packages with a gajillion bajillion files and dependencies. I think
> having a way to list files and dependencies from a package manager
> interface would make more sense.

Dependencies are *very* important for browsing packages on the web.
You *do* want to know if an innocuous-looking package will pull in qt,
kde, java or another big packageset.

A lot of the times the problems a package might have derive directly from
the deps it needs.

Regards,


-- 
Nicolas Mailhot




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