On Ma, 16 oct 12, 17:34:19, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > FWIW tons of packages doesn't mean tons of apps etc., since of the > strange policy to split some packages in an insane way, e.g. the jackd > packages are split really insane. Or does any package depend to libjack > without jackd? And if so, why? Why should every application *capable* of outputting to jackd force one to install jackd?
> There often is the argument that shared libs will keep a system small, > but bad hard dependencies often enlarge a system. On Arch there e.g. is > a dependency to systemd. I use intitscripts, not systemd, but have got > systemd installed. On Debian for example there's a hard dependency to > pulseaudio for some apps, even if it's completely useless. Care to provide some examples? Looking through the reverse dependencies of the package 'pulseaudio' the only strange one is kde-telepathy-call-ui. If you meant dependency to libpulse, then the answer is the same as for jackd. > And FWIW, meta-packages only summarize some other packages, so the count > of packages gives information about big nothing. We don't know anything about Lisi's use case, so this is maybe a bit premature? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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