>>>>> On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Patrick McLean wrote:

> Something's presence in the tree does not mean that you are required
> to install it. A package's presence in the tree really has little to
> zero effect on any user that does not use the package.

I wonder if that's always true. Distros adopting a package will make
it more likely that other software will gain a dependency on it.

Ulrich