On Sunday 26 April 2009 18:19:48 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 05:32 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190476
> >
> > Want me to close this as INVALID? ;-)
> >
> > I don't see how the dependency is a bug at all, nor do I understand the
> > point of absolutely wanting to remove a package just to remove it. Disk
> > space is cheap.


Its a packaging error because the package is not required to make marble work. If digikam it is not required it is not a dependency. An error In computer parlance is called a bug.



> You're missing the point. I don't care about the disk space, but I do
> care about having to download a 30MB package that I'm never going to use
> over a slow DSL line,


Slow DSL Line. What's you're throughput when downloading the packages?


> not only on first installation but also on
> subsequent updates. I'm sure people on dialup feel even more strongly
> about this.


This is more than likely.


Eli


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