On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Dan McGee
Can I take a step back here and say this: we're getting greedy.
When we introduced optdepends, we were (I was?) just trying to remove need for install files with metadata only. Moving it into the package made sense, but I never anticipated it flowering into all this complexity that has been brought up in this thread. What happened to tweaking things on your own if necessary?
I'm just not convinced we want to go down the road to complexity and extra features here, especially if the trend continues. "Well what if I installed a package as an optdepend for this one, but don't want it to be an optdepend for this other one?" The list of scenarios seems endless and I fear fixing one will open the floodgates for 3 more use cases.
I did not participate to this thread before because I share the same feeling.