[fab] slashdot question: dependencies

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 20:27 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Max Spevack (mspevack at redhat.com) said: 
> > Would like to open up a few of these questions for some input from you 
> > guys.  This is not a replacement for a larger draft of the answers -- this 
> > is just as I work on some of the other questions, here's a few that I 
> > can't answer alone.
> 
> evince is linked against libnautilus-extension. It's entirely possible
> that that could be split out of nautilus proper, I suppose.

That answers the example, not the question.  Even on fedora-devel, we've
been getting "why does it pull in umpteen packages as dependencies for
foo?"

I don't think this is attributed to yum/rpm really.  Maybe it's simply
how gnome and it's applications are packaged.

josh