Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reduces the memory wasted and speeds up processing in dpkg, dselect, > apt, aptitude, britney, ...
It's also useful for simple humans looking at the dependencies of a package: having all dependencies, including those on essential packages, would clutter the Depends line without adding much value in most cases. For instance, I would not be very interested to learn that $PACKAGE depends on debianutils for the only reason that it uses /usr/bin/which or /bin/mktemp in a script. But several such explicit dependencies would really clutter the Depends line, and /that/ would be annoying. -- Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
