On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:37 AM, David Benfell <benfell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > How much of this is the distribution and how much of this is gnome? Mostly upstream (depends of course a bit on which package you have in mind). If an app links against libpulse it means that it would crash if libpulse is not installed, so we add a dependency on libpulse. A dependency that does not cause the app to misbehave if it is not installed (such as plugins, etc) should (in general) be an optdepend. -t
