[oe] xserver-xorg rdepends
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
mickey at vanille-media.de
Fri Oct 17 15:55:27 UTC 2008
Phil wrote:
> Historically, the general policy for RDEPENDS has been that it should
> list only those packages which are absolutely required for the software
> in question to do anything useful. For example, shared libraries
> without which you can't run the binary at all; interpreters without
> which you can't invoke the script; supporting datafiles without which
> the program will immediately crash, that kind of thing. If the program
> can run and do at least something useful without a given package being
> installed, we have not usually considered it to be a hard dependency.
> These kinds of "soft dependencies" have traditionally been a matter of
> DISTRO and/or MACHINE policy, being handled either through task
> packages, PACKAGE_INSTALL, RRECOMMENDS, or some similar mechanism.
I agree. Consider this a vote for turning this into a RRECOMMENDS or dropping
it completely.
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