Richi Plana (myfedora@richip.dhs.org) said:
For instance, if I desired to come up with a spin that doesn't have Sendmail, why must I give up fetchmail, mutt or tor?
Because they *require* a MTA to deliver/send the mail, at least in their default configurations
Why is it that so many packages can't stand alone without libvorbis? I know that some of the packages NEED libvorbis, but for many, shouldn't it be optional and something that isn't required to be compiled against (think dlopen(3) instead of ld(1)) like gstreamer-plugins-* (which all seem to require libvorbis)?
dlopen will cause you to break at runtime instead of buildtime if ABI changes - that's not good.
Bill