On 12 Nov 2007, at 05:27, Daniel Macks wrote: > Does stripping down a package's Depends even help on the binary side > either? It does in the sense of giving (potentially) a smaller footprint to the lib or executable > The Depends' Depends would still be there, so the > indirectly-linked libraries would still be needed sure _ but "linked" in a much more restrictive (and correct) sense > and their -shlibs > packages would still be indirect dependencies of the package. right _ but in this more restrictive sense > The main > gain would be when a mid-level library stops using some low-level > library as its back-end...high-level stuff wouldn't list the low-level > lib, so these hidden changes wouldn't affect dependencies (build or > run) of the high-level things. If I understand you correctly, we do mean the same thing !
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