[pacman-dev] "explicit dependencies", a compromise between explicit and deps

[Xavier]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.