[RANT] [OT] Bloating dependencies instead of using recommends (was: Re: RFS: sqlkit)

2009-09-10 Thread Rogério Brito
On Sep 04 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 04 September 2009 13:14:43 Alessandro Dentella wrote: > > So I'd really prefer to leave those 2 drivers as dependencies. > > Recommends, right? As a user it annoys me to no end when the packager > Depends > on something the system will w

Re: [RANT] [OT] Bloating dependencies instead of using recommends (was: Re: RFS: sqlkit)

2009-09-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Rogério Brito wrote: > I am really annoyed with the current trend of packages dragging in a > lot of dependencies on which the packages don't really "depend". The > word "dependency" seems to has lost its meaning. Please file bugs against these packages as appropriate, with in