Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Jeff Spaleta wrote, at 09/04/2008 03:31 AM +9:00:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Mamoru Tasaka
> <mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
>> Umm... agreed.
>> When I install some binary rpms rebuilt by koji scratch build to review
>> the package it often pulls so many depdendencies, especially when they
>> are Java packages.
> 
> What's the overall drive consumption when you do that? The issue isnt
> "number of packages" the issue is "amount of harddrive space."  Game
> data make be exceptional in that that are typically as large or larger
> than 200M.  Pulling in java deps might pollute your packagelist..but
> does it burn 200M+ of harddrive space?

One package I reviewed pulled 96M dependency rpms (and if they are expanded
they gets larger)

Mamoru