Re: quantification of cost of outdated dependencies

2011-03-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: I've been hearing a bit lately about removing dependencies that are no longer needed for stable upgrade paths. The most common reason seems that this will make apt need less memory[1]. So then, someone must have measured the memory use. Unless this is a

Re: quantification of cost of outdated dependencies

2011-03-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 04:28:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: So, I've convinced myself this is probably a false optimisation. And me, too. Thank you for the analysis. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

quantification of cost of outdated dependencies

2011-03-07 Thread Joey Hess
I've been hearing a bit lately about removing dependencies that are no longer needed for stable upgrade paths. The most common reason seems that this will make apt need less memory[1]. So then, someone must have measured the memory use. Unless this is a kind of premature optimation. But, I've not