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

2009-09-10 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

[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 work