@IronStorm >everything on the desktop >depends on it for something <off-topic rant>
Yet another example of rampant dependency inflation. I've complained about this before in a variety of contexts. Somehow, the entire open source developer community needs to get a handle on it. It's a big problem for IYCC, and I suspect other OEMs, when trying to tailor a machine for a particular use case or market. The Debian Policy Manual has a a very good statement on how to categorize dependencies. http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html Unfortunately, the policy seems not to be enforced nearly enough. In particular, the entire community should make greater use of Suggests, Enhances, and Recommends dependencies, of virtual packages that "Provide" packages, and of meta-packages that are similarly careful about dependency relationships. Dependency inflation isn't restricted to Ubuntu. Best I can tell, all the distros are guilty of it, including RedHat. :-) We're working on weeding it out of the IYCC Distribution, but it's not a trivial task because of the pervasiveness of the problem. I'm not sure how to create a process that would herd the cats, but it's what's needed. Perhaps each distro should have a Dependency Czar to review dependencies and crackdown on ever-expanding dependencies. </off-topic rant> Happy Trails, Loye Young Isaac & Young Computer Company Laredo, Texas http://www.iycc.net -- console-kit-deamon spawns too many threads https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
