On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:54:10AM +0530, Raghavendra Prabhu wrote: > One thing I don't understand here is - why people crib that package B should > not have feature X. If you don't want that, ABS is for that. There are > plenty of packages which have additional dependencies like that mplayer(like > smbclient) or vlc(hal :) or lua). > > (snipped) The problem is that using ABS is impracticable if you have a big number of custom PKGBUILDs. OTOH, having packages with minimal dependencies isn't so great. During the (short) time I've used Gentoo, I noticed the consume of RAM is a little lower, but there isn't a big difference in performance. The problems arise when you compile packages with way to minimal dependencies, and later realize it was a mistake, and now you have to recompile lots of packages.
