On 06/23/2009 06:42 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
TK009 wrote:
> As to the bug itself, I can not and will not speak for why it bothers
> the OP. To answer your question though, it bothers me because I don't
> want packages on my machine I don't need.
>
If you need package XYZ and package XYZ needs package foo for whatever
reason, then you need package foo, even if it doesn't intuitively make
sense to you.
> As it is my machine that is reason enough.
>
It's not, there's no rationale for removing small packages just because you
think you don't need them (when you actually do, see above).
> Size is irrelevant.
>
Huh? What harm is a package with a size in the KB range going to do? Just
leave it sitting there instead of wasting your and our time whining about a
dependency.
Kevin Kofler
I didn't whine but if that is how you took it, good for you. You missed
the point, so I wont bother explaining again. Let me decide how to use
my time, you've made it clear how you want to use yours.
TK009