On 2013-06-05 03:03 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
Maybe it is not a hard dependency, probably a recommend.
It's no hard dependency. I've been tabooing and/or removing them for at least 3 years, with no apparent ill effects. I'm tired of the nuisance they constitute. My systems are all KDE, so gtk should be limited to hard deps on actually installed gtk packages required by the few unavoidable gtk apps intentionally installed.
And 20KB is not worth much effort :-)
It's 20k times 8, many times a year here, not counting any updating that occurs if I let them get installed in the first place, and not to mention their needless presence and waste of bandwidth on hundreds of thousands of other systems. It's wasteful. Waste is bad. Installation selections that include minimal in their title or description should by definition exclude all soft deps and all recommends. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org