Le vendredi 24 juin 2011 à 12:37 +0200, Ulrich Mueller a écrit : > >>>>> 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 >
Well I'd be in favor of installing emacs support files unconditionally even though I don't use emacs and I'm not a fan of "wasted space". I feel like we have enough means for people who care about space to get rid of these. -- Gilles Dartiguelongue <e...@gentoo.org> Gentoo
