Another questionable dependency chain -- libreoffice-writer installs log4j-chainsaw

[Kevin Kofler]

Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> That would certainly help from theoretical point of view, but that's not
> really maintainable.  Adding hundreds of empty packages just to improve
> dependencies isn't the right way to go, IMHO.  This should be fixed in
> the infrastructure.

IMHO, adding hundreds of empty -devel subpackages IS the way to go, if the 
only difference between -devel and main really is the dependencies. Stuff 
needed only for development belongs into -devel packages, period.

        Kevin Kofler