On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> wrote:
Am 19.01.2011 08:08, schrieb Allan McRae:
If we want to be really pedantic about dependencies, we should list _ALL_ dependencies and not remove the ones that are dependencies of dependencies.
Why don't we just do the correct thing: +1
If package A depends on package B, and B depends on C, then A might depend on C explicitly because it accesses C directly. Or it might only depend on indirectly C because B accesses C. We should reflect that in dependencies (in the first case, A depends on C, in the second case it doesn't).
The result is this: Whenever the dependencies of B change (e.g., C is removed), A will still work correctly.
And this check is done by a software not by a "scientist" predicate that varies depending on the experience of maintainer. -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net