Excessive package interdependency

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:05 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 17:12, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
> > Also, again, I never want the user to be exposed to "do you want to
> > install libfoo" -- libfoo is an implementation detail that the user
> > shouldn't have to care about, it should just get installed if its
> > needed.  But the flip side is you should see nautilus even though
> > nautilus-cd-burner depends on it.
> 
> I'd imagine you also don't want to show packages which replace others,
> for the most part (i.e. dhcpcd -> dhclient, etc)

Obsoletes tend to make these magically happen.

Cheers,

Jeremy