Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:

> A good reason would be that the package *cannot* be used for anything
> else (e.g. when it’s a custom variant of a library that would
> otherwise be bundled but we decided to build it separately).

Ah, that's good to know for something else I'm packaging. :)

> We hid “gcc” because users would install it instead of “gcc-toolchain”
> and be surprised that it didn’t work.
>
> I would not hide a package just because it is a less popular
> dependency of some more popular tool.

Noted, thanks!

Regards,
Jakob

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