  Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies  Hi
Christian,  (Sorry if you get this twice, I don't know whether
you subscribe to  Christian Aichinger wrote: > As Steve Langasek
detailed in his d-d-a mail[1], unnecessary > dependencies cause
lots of problems, as they make transitions > bigger then they
need to be. > The root cause are unnecessary libraries on the
linker commandline, > which get stored in the resulting binary
and which dpkg-shlibdeps > happily turns into inter-package
dependencies. > Thus the goal is to eliminate those unnecessary
linker arguments. > As a start, I've written a script that
searches for unnecessary > dependencies and reports them.
Results are available here: > http://rerun.lefant.net/checklib
Thank you for this very cool effort!  Might we see checklib
packaged for Debian soon?  (I was going to ask about source
code, but then I noticed the link to here
<URL:http://greek0.net/div/checklib.tar.gz> at the bottom of the
checklib web page.  Reposting it for anyone else