Re: Bug#88307: Netbase needs to not depend on not-necessarily-needed packages.
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 05:31:31PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
> > Netbase depends on a number of very non-essential packages that are only useful
> > under very specific circumstances. These packages are:
> > - iproute
>
> The dependency is net-tools | iproute, and if you don't have one or the other
> you can use any networking.
>
> > - ipchains | ipfwadm | iptables
>
> And there's no reason not to have one of these. ipfwadm, for example,
> is a whole 58k.
58 > 0. In extreme circumstances, extreme measures need to be taken.
> > Point is, this mas a major usability effect on systems with limited amounts
> > of disk space and memory, and therefore these overdone dependencies need to be
> > toned down.
>
> Nonsense. Bug closed with this message.
It would be rather nice of you to not jump the gun like that...
> Cheers,
> aj
Regards,
Alex.
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