> users may not want those features. A soft dependency covers this > situation pretty perfectly; by default you get the extra dependencies > installed so the features will be available, but if you're someone who > needs to optimize disk space or number of installed packages you'll have > configured urpmi not to install soft dependencies so you won't get them, > and if you didn't do that but you later decide to remove one of the soft > deps, you can. I consider this a significant win, the package would be > objectively less good without this.
How do you know _later_ which installed packages could be removed as they only came via soft dependencies ? « package-cleanup --soft-leaves » or something like that ? ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
