For fetaures, that are optional, weak dependencies is the best solution I can think of.
Even when "Recommends" is used, which means it will try to pull the dependency as well, if not said specifically opted-out.

> 2 considerations:
> * is the user experience significantly affected?
> * is the size implications significant?
> As far as I can tell, the answer to both is generally no.

For everything else, besides opt features, plugins, ... , I totally agree with the nice short answer from Rex.

Michal Schorm

Associate Software Engineer
Core Services - Databases Team
Red Hat

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> Arguably, the current stable updates policy is against this
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases :
> [...] Updates should aim to fix bugs, and not introduce features, [...]

you snipped off what I consider relevant here: "... particularly when those
features would materially affect the user or developer experience"

> Is this a legitimate issue or am I making storm in a teacup here?
> Ever-increasing package sizes and dependency bloat do seem to be
> a popular topic these days.

2 considerations:
* is the user experience significantly affected?
* is the size implications significant?

As far as I can tell, the answer to both is generally no.

-- rex

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