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Murray J. Root wrote:

> The problem is not a broken KDE that requires patching. It is the
unnecessary
> addition of "requirements" that are not really "required".

What? The sql devel libraries required by kdebase-devel (or
kdelibs-devel, cannot remember now)? Since Guillaume provided a patch to
Laurent, they have been split up, and you do not need the sql devel
libraries for whatever you used to need it for.

This happened because someone stopped complaining and made the effort
... It does not mean that things will not be done if you do not provide
a patch, or that they are guaranteed if you do, but doing the work for
someone else makes it much easier.

> This has been a
> problem in Mandrake for a long time. That is why I said to quit
beating the
> horse - the Mandrake team disagrees with using "requires" the same way an
> English speaker uses it and it is quite clear that no amount of
messages to
> the list is going to get them to change it.
> So live with the bloat or force nodeps.

Or quit beating the horse and start feeding it ...

Buchan

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