TK009 wrote:
As to the bug itself, I can not and will not speak for why it bothers the OP. To answer your question though, it bothers me because I don't want packages on my machine I don't need.
If you need package XYZ and package XYZ needs package foo for whatever reason, then you need package foo, even if it doesn't intuitively make sense to you.
As it is my machine that is reason enough.
It's not, there's no rationale for removing small packages just because you think you don't need them (when you actually do, see above).
Size is irrelevant.
Huh? What harm is a package with a size in the KB range going to do? Just leave it sitting there instead of wasting your and our time whining about a dependency.
Kevin Kofler