19 Jan
2011
19 Jan
'11
12:20 p.m.
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: 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.