> Splitting them off but making them Recommended seems odd to me. At that
> point we've got all the work of splitting them but little of the
> benefit, because soft dependencies are included when building images,
> so our default installs are still going to include pkexec.
> 
> Why not just not have them recommended at all, and instead try to find
> all packages that use them and add dependencies, so that they will be
> included when an image or whatever really does need them? Is that
> considered too difficult?

I went with Recommends to be conservative. We could indeed make them fully 
optional if we end up being confident we will not break the default user 
experience.

--
Timothée Ravier
CoreOS engineer & Fedora Kinoite maintainer
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