Am 2007-06-15 16:41:31, schrieb John Hasler: > Jan Willem Stumpel writes: > > I suspect some developers have been too generous in assigning > > dependencies to some packages -- especially library packages. > > It's upstream that decides to link to the libraries.
But Debian-Maintainers CAN change the "Depends:" to "Recommends:" and if
some crappy software output errormessages thet it cannot find libcupsys2
the the software is definitivly bad designed sind it can check whether
a lib is availlable and THEN load it.
> > Anyway I think the dependencies ought to be looked at very critically,
> > and when possible cleaned up. Are any developers listening?
>
> File bugs (I don't mean that sarcastically).
Done, against Katoob and Samba.
Note: Those two programs push 38 MByte additional packages onto my
systems, while my selfbuild (from the Debian-Sources) are
working without any problems IF compiled --without-cupsys.
Katoob is no problem, but Samba enforce the loading of libcupsys, so it
has to patched if wou want to leave libcupsys2 linked but it is not
availlabel.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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