Frans Pop wrote: > Dependencies should in principle be "top down", not "bottom up". And > defining dependencies from libs to apps is almost per definition "bottom > up". As a nice experiment (you need testing or unstable's aptitude for this): % aptitude search '?section(^libs) ?recommends(!?section(libs) !?section(doc) !?section(python) !?section(perl) !?section(doc) !?section(libdevel) )' | wc -l 139 -- Felipe Sateler