On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:40:58PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> As an engineer, I find the dichotomy to be better expressed as being
> between failed and operational.  Whether we're building a car,
> a bridge, a microprocessor, or a computer program, we don't want to
> deliver something that we know will fail.  The whole point of the
> dependency checker is to make sure that what arrives will actually work.

Taking the car analogy further, I would not like to be forced to buy
an iPod because my new car happens to ship with an iPod adapter! :)
The car would be perfectly operational without the iPod, just like
Pidgin would be perfectly operational without the demo perl scripts.

Having said that, I agree this could be handled by facets.

Cheers,
Venky.
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