On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 22:49 -0700, James Rayner wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A while ago I got a request from Thomas to make a stripped down dbus > > package that does not depend on libx11 so he could use it for > > wpa_supplicant which is also in core. > > As more and more services start to interact with this dbus thing, I'd > > like to move the new dbus-core package into core. This pulls in one > > extra dependency from extra, which is expat at this moment. > > > > The new dbus package contains only the x11 parts of dbus and stays in > > extra. > > my support for [core], as an upcoming netcfg version will take > advantage of the wpa_supplicant dbus interface. > > Though, why did you split it rather than just using optdepends. Only > one very minor utility needed libx11 and you'd only be using it if you > had X installed.
What's the policy on cross-repository dependencies these days? Is it normal to have core packages makedepending on packages from extra or community?
