For fetaures, that are optional, weak dependencies is the best solution I can think of. Even when "Recommends" is used, which means it will try to pull the dependency as well, if not said specifically opted-out.
> 2 considerations: > * is the user experience significantly affected? > * is the size implications significant? > As far as I can tell, the answer to both is generally no. For everything else, besides opt features, plugins, ... , I totally agree with the nice short answer from Rex. -- Michal Schorm Associate Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Rex Dieter <rdie...@math.unl.edu> wrote: > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > Arguably, the current stable updates policy is against this > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases : > > [...] Updates should aim to fix bugs, and not introduce features, [...] > > you snipped off what I consider relevant here: "... particularly when those > features would materially affect the user or developer experience" > > > Is this a legitimate issue or am I making storm in a teacup here? > > Ever-increasing package sizes and dependency bloat do seem to be > > a popular topic these days. > > 2 considerations: > * is the user experience significantly affected? > * is the size implications significant? > > As far as I can tell, the answer to both is generally no. > > -- rex > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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