Re: Cleaning up dependency hell
I think 2 really cool things that the REALLY open development model
can
do is help organize Bug Triage days and also help point out and fix all
these silly dependency chains. Maybe help rewrite spec files that create
truly minimal packages that do not pull in extra dependencies.
I am just looking at some of the build dependencies. Things get easily
out of band. Perl requires dos2unix, elfutils require sharutils etc.
A bit bigger problem is the growing dependencies of libs.
pam, openssl, openldap, tcp_wrappers, some GUI libs, kerberous and
a couple of addon libs get easily added and the mix seems to get
even bigger all the time.
greetings,
Florian La Roche