On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 13:42:20 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > I'm not sure I could speak about "cases", but an obvious use case > aside from bootstrapping is backporting, where I could just drop off > dependencies I'm not going to use instead of looking at the code and > figuring out if it's easier to backport yet another library or change > the code. Just because I know that removing dependencies not in > Build-Core-Depends will just work. > You don't actually know that, unless you're suggesting we expand our support matrix by a few orders of magnitude to support any and all combinations of packages built with some random combination of their optional build-deps. "Works enough to get to the next stage of the bootstrap" isn't the same as "just works".
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