Re: Excessive package interdependency

[Chris Ricker <kaboom gatech edu>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> The nautilus package dependencies was very deliberately added in order
> to get "full" feature support when someone upgrades. This was done when
> these packages was added to the distro, and without the dependency the
> new features would not be installed on an upgrade. We considered it more
> important that the majority of the Gnome desktop users didn't get half a
> desktop than that someone had to install a couple of megs of possibly
> unnecessary dependencies.
> 
> As long as there is no other way to handle this in the installer I stand
> by my decision.

I still think a better solution is for anaconda to display a list of "new
packages" (meaning stuff added since the release being upgraded from) to the
user, and the user to be asked if they want that additional
functionality....

later,
chris