Request: please consider clarifying the project's position on Spins

[Bill Nottingham]

Peter Robinson (pbrobinson at gmail.com) said: 
> >>       * manage to cut down the dependency jungle to a reasonable extent
> >
> > FYI, this has been an assigned ticket in FESCo for months. I suspect
> > it would get more work if more exaples were actually posted to it. AFAIK,
> > most everything that was mentioned there has already been addressed. (And,
> > not coincidentally, *caused* various spin issues/delays in F-14, but
> > I may be misremembering.)
> 
> To be honest I don't think this is something that can be addressed in
> a single FESCo ticket. I think this is something that needs to be
> embedded in the packaging policy somehow or the understanding. This is
> something that i'm constantly fighting and people just generally don't
> realise the impact or worse don't care of the impact. I had one
> instance recently where the main package which was part of core gnome
> was pulling in an entire dep tree because the packager didn't realise,
> I pinged them and helped resolve the problem. tracker recently started
> pulling in QT and deps which when installed is 75 odd Mb. This is
> something that is a constant ongoing review. I'm aware of the ticket
> but I don't think its the solution to the problem.

Then we need to a) close the ticket b) assign the ticket to someone to
write a guideline c) something else?  In any case, merely stating the
problem from time to time and having a more-or-less dead FESCo ticket as
the only point for coordination on the issues isn't particularly useful.

Bill