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seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Mar 17 08:14:08 UTC 2005


> 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.

Why? isn't that what the pkg mgmt tools are for?



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

again, how's it helpful to user who just wants to browse?

I agree with Icon, it just makes things confusing and cluttery.

-sv





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