Re: removing useless dependencies

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 05:29:16PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 02:10:08PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>  > > I'm not really sure what the advantage of removing them wholesale on
>  > > principle is though.  "Occasionally broken" doesn't feel like a strong
>  > > argument - lots of things are occasionally broken, and then they are fixed.
>  > 
>  > They create a lot of noise that hides real issues for the question of
>  > pkgdir not matching best match. As such, they are harmful.
> 
> That's a pbulk bug :-)

Which part? Reporting potential problems? Implementing the same logic
pkg_add would trigger? Things are done for a reason...

Joerg