On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:37:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > The question itself, in its starkest form, is simple. > Under what circumstances, if any, is it considered acceptable for a > package which is installed as a dependency by the upgrade of another > package to silently break the system? That sounds like something that's so blindingly obviously a bad idea for any package that you'd hope it doesn't need to be in policy?