Re: removing useless dependencies

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 07:56:51PM +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...

The fact that perfectly good alternative patterns cause it to issue
warnings.

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David A. Holland
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