> >Peter Tribble wrote: >> Of course it is. Dependencies aren't really anything more than hints > >NO, they are not. They are corner stones on which the whole building is >built. They have to live up to standards and a user (the inhabitant of the >house) may not alter the specs because he/she sees fit. That's not done in >the normal world and also not done in a pkg system. The whole pkg system >needs dependancies! We have to guard the QUALITY (and maybe quantity) of >them but not overrule them as we see fit.
I don't think that is actually correct at this time; when packages are large and you want a package for feature "A" but it's feature "B" which requires a particular dependency, then requiring a particular dependency is wrong. Casper
