Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's quite simple. You don't do it unless you are fully aware of the > > consequences. If you have to ask, you aren't fully aware of the > > consequences so you mustn't do it. > > That's a flawed argument. Not knowing doesn't prevent you from > asking, and asking will inform you of the consequences, assuming the > asked isn't a complete tool. Let me try this more diplomatically. How are we supposed to know if a package that's depending on a system package is a bug or an exception if we have no idea what the exception(s) is/are? Stephen Bennett wrote: > If you don't know about the unwritten yet near universal exception > clause then you shouldn't be invoking it. If it's universal, then why isn't it written somewhere? After all this, we *still* haven't gotten an answer to why some packages outside of the system target are depending on zlib. Is this a bug? If not, what's the reason it's there? Let's document this reason, so we don't have to go through this again in the future. It's that simple.
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