[oe] xserver-xorg rdepends

[Koen Kooi]

On 17-10-2008 17:55, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> 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.

You're a bit behind the times :)

http://gitweb.openembedded.net/?p=openembedded.git;a=commit;h=ada680d9ac7180986f600f223b6ec01c7796dff8