On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net> wrote:
Once upon a time, Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> said:
> Fedora is not in a bad state with respect to fine grained dependencies
> (it was quite bad back, at least up to FC4), mostly
> * thanks to olpc,
> * to maintainers who reported these issues,
> * because there is always some space needed on the live disc
> * thanks to split to some -libs because of multilib issues.
>
> Unless it has been solved, there was still an issue with metacity (and
> maybe gnome) and themes interdependencies. Also there are still
> monolithic big beasts like texlive, but I am not sure that it is
> that desirable to fix those.
I tried to install ntop on a firewall (minimal F9 install, tuned via
kickstart). There were 70 packages added because of dependencies,
including metacity.
I agree here...and I don't think Fedora is not in a bad state regarding
fine-grained deps...
if you want a point of comparison, take a look at Debian, maybe. Or the
*BSD's.
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