Cleaning up dependency hell

[Mike A. Harris]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:

>>One example of this is midnight commander as someone pointed out.  
>>mc requires XFree86-libs.  Someone out there might want to have 
>>mc installed on a system completely devoid of X, and will never 
>>be using mc inside X on that system.  They might not even have a 
>>mouse attached to the system.  Nonetheless, they have no choice 
>>but to install XFree86-libs and all of it's dependancies if they 
>>want to install mc.
>>
>
>I think 2 really cool things that the REALLY open development model can 
>do is help organize Bug Triage days and also help point out and fix all 
>these silly dependency chains. Maybe help rewrite spec files that create 
>truly minimal packages that do not pull in extra dependencies.

That would be great.  There's a lot of things that lots of us 
would "like" to do, but never find time to prioritize ourselves 
because we're too busy with work that is much more mission 
critical or time related.  Having people volunteer to do such 
things, would be a great thing.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat