Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: community spirit

[Daniel Stone]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:24:06PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> Kerberos support
> X-Face support
> 
> I don't think you can realistically claim that it would be better off
> without any one of those, especially since they're all fairly small,
> and doubly so since you're installing evolution. None of those extra
> features makes a significant load compared to evolution itself.
> 
> > It seems to me that at least a handfull of these deps could have been
> > avoided, by proper engineering.
> 
> Only by eliminating features that are widely desired. Where would be
> the point in that? It's not like they're large dependencies.

Neither of the last two you listed are in wide use.

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Daniel Stone                                              <address@hidden>
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