Re: removing useless dependencies

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 05:26:50AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> 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.

Have you read what I said? The patterns don't work most people believe
them to work. As such, they are hardly perfectly good...

Joerg