>>>>> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Michał Górny wrote: > There's no reason that a dozen of packages PDEPENDs on > bash-completion. If one decides not to use bash-completion any > longer, I don't see a reason to rebuild all those packages just to > get rid of one PDEPEND (and a single file).
The question is where to draw the line: "There's no reason that a dozen of packages RDEPENDs on emacs. If one decides not to use emacs any longer, I don't see a reason to rebuild all those packages just to get rid of one RDEPEND (and a single file)." Same argument. ;) Should packages install their emacs support files (it's only one or two small files in most cases) unconditionally? But seriously: I believe that most people would agree that logrotate config files should be installed unconditionally, whereas in the case of emacs they would disagree. bash-completion is somewhere inbetween. Ulrich
