Re: [arch-projects] [namcap] Question about transient dependencies

On 2017-08-08 18:59, keenerd via arch-projects wrote:

There is no hard policy and maintainers can do whatever they feel is a good best practice.

That could be said about many other warnings that namcap issues. Transient dependencies are a real problem, and bugs about suddenly missing dependent packages happen every now and then. The lack of policy on anything is not much different from eating own tail. Bartłomiej