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

[Bartłomiej Piotrowski]

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