what needs to be done that maintainers try to minimize dependencies? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868201 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868208
what finally happens with careless introduced dependencies is like below - you have a php application using php-pecl-imagick and ImageMagick or a cross-dep is hadrly pulling colord, sane-backends.... _______________________ LANG=en; yum remove colord Failed to set locale, defaulting to C Loaded plugins: downloadonly, protectbase Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package colord.x86_64 0:0.1.23-1.fc17 will be erased --> Processing Dependency: libcolord.so.1()(64bit) for package: gtk3-3.4.4-1.fc17.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package gtk3.x86_64 0:3.4.4-1.fc17 will be erased --> Processing Dependency: libgdk-3.so.0()(64bit) for package: librsvg2-2.36.1-1.fc17.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libgtk-3.so.0()(64bit) for package: librsvg2-2.36.1-1.fc17.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package librsvg2.x86_64 0:2.36.1-1.fc17 will be erased --> Processing Dependency: librsvg-2.so.2()(64bit) for package: ImageMagick-6.7.5.6-4.fc17.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package ImageMagick.x86_64 0:6.7.5.6-4.fc17 will be erased --> Processing Dependency: libMagickCore.so.5()(64bit) for package: 3:php-pecl-imagick-3.0.1-22.fc17.20121019.rh.x86_64 --> Processing Dependency: libMagickWand.so.5()(64bit) for package: 3:php-pecl-imagick-3.0.1-22.fc17.20121019.rh.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package php-pecl-imagick.x86_64 3:3.0.1-22.fc17.20121019.rh will be erased
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