Richi Plana (myfedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > For instance, if I desired to come up with a spin that doesn't have > Sendmail, why must I give up fetchmail, mutt or tor? Because they *require* a MTA to deliver/send the mail, at least in their default configurations > Why is it that so > many packages can't stand alone without libvorbis? I know that some of > the packages NEED libvorbis, but for many, shouldn't it be optional and > something that isn't required to be compiled against (think dlopen(3) > instead of ld(1)) like gstreamer-plugins-* (which all seem to require > libvorbis)? dlopen will cause you to break at runtime instead of buildtime if ABI changes - that's not good. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
