Today I went through the Monday-morning ritual of updating my fink
installation, and discovered this little gem:

> Information about 4566 packages read in 5 seconds.
> The following package will be installed or updated:
>  gnupg
> The following 19 additional packages will be installed:
>  cyrus-sasl2-dev cyrus-sasl2-shlibs docbook-bundle docbook-dsssl-ldp 
> docbook-dsssl-nwalsh docbook-dtd libtool14
>  libtool14-shlibs libusb libusb-shlibs openjade openldap-ssl 
> openldap-ssl-shlibs opensp4 opensp4-dev opensp4-shlibs readline5
>  readline5-shlibs sgml-entities-iso8879

I'm sure there's a reason for the fact that this gnupg update requires
*19* new packages to get installed, but it still strikes me as a tad
excessive and a bit of "feature bloat"... I mean documentation is
important, but what's wrong with some nice, self-contained manpages
(or even texinfo files) -- do we really need to write a utility's
documentation using DocBook?

--
Viktor


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