On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I take a step back here and say this: we're getting greedy. > > When we introduced optdepends, we were (I was?) just trying to remove > need for install files with metadata only. Moving it into the package > made sense, but I never anticipated it flowering into all this > complexity that has been brought up in this thread. What happened to > tweaking things on your own if necessary? > > I'm just not convinced we want to go down the road to complexity and > extra features here, especially if the trend continues. "Well what if > I installed a package as an optdepend for this one, but don't want it > to be an optdepend for this other one?" The list of scenarios seems > endless and I fear fixing one will open the floodgates for 3 more use > cases. >
I did not participate to this thread before because I share the same feeling. _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
