Re: GNOME dependent on Mono

["Pascal Terjan" <pterjan gmail com>]

On Nov 29, 2007 11:48 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms 1407 org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 08:03:38PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > I read http://boycottnovell.com/2007/11/05/gnome-mono-yelp/ with
> > great concern.
>
> (...)
>
> > However, making GNOME depend on Mono is running a grave risk, and a
> > grave mistake.  If the article accurately describes the situation, I
> > think we need to launch a high-priority project to reimplement Yelp in
> > some other language.
>
> RPM (as used in most distributions) is not as flexible as DEB and a
> badly made package will bring in *optional* dependencies as if they were
> required.

Actually it is, even if this is quite recent.