On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:28 PM, John E. Perry <j.e.perry@cox.net> wrote:
Larry Stotler wrote:
... That's because it is probably already installed because it was a dependency for something or other. I've been frustrated by this for years having to install support for stuff I don't have like ISDN, bluetooth, palm utilities, etc. Heck, SaX even has a dependency for the intel 915 chipset, which was never available on a mac. When you get right down to it, it's not just openSUSE's devs. It also has to do with the dependencies that the authors feel the need to impose.
So tell me, Larry, would you really rather have tens to hundreds of thousands of individual library files to find and choose from when you're installing or developing software, or hundreds of packages, each containing dozens to hundreds of library files, most of which you probably don't need for a particular application? And may not need for any application you will use?
John Perry
The question you pose suggest that the alternative to bogus dependencies is to get rid of packages all together. That is not at all true, and you know it. -- ----------JSA--------- There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that can read binary and those that can't. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org