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Re: Bug#573929: ITP: libcatalyst-devel-perl -- collection of development tools for Catalyst



Marco,

If someone installs a package, they expect everything included in the
package to work. Since we don't know ahead of time which modules a
person plans to use from the bundle, we have to install dependencies
for all of them.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
> On Mar 15, Jonathan Yu <jawnsy@cpan.org> wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, they are historically against the idea of having
>> small packages, so we were forced to put them into a bundle. So, I'm
> Yes, but there is no reason to have the bundle depend on every possible
> package, a Recommends is enough.
>
> --
> ciao,
> Marco
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