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On 05/03/2016 09:45 PM, James E. Blair wrote:
> Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse.com> writes:
>
>> Goals:
>> 1. bindep-fallback.txt should be minimal and handle packages that the
>>     majority of projects need.
>
> Isn't the goal to remove bindep-fallback.txt completely?

I wasn't sure whether we want to go that far - but that's also why I 
stated the goals so that we can all be on the same page ;).

> I hope so -- I think it should be -- otherwise we are saying projects
> should explicitly declare their binary dependencies, except for some
> arbitrary set.
>
> I understand we may iterate a bit before we get there, and 'minimal' can
> be a step on the way to 'removed'.

Yes, this would be the first step in this direction. But if we want to 
remove it, the messaging around it will be different ;)

> Thanks for the write up!

Andreas
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