dependency hell

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Carl R. Powers wrote:
> I just tried to do a lunar update.  Among packages to be updated was 
> gtkmm2.
> That's no problem, it's installed.  Only now, glibmm, which wasn't 
> installed, has
> apparently been added as a required depend.  That's reasonable.  Only,
>  glibmm requires doxygen
>  doxygen requires teTeX
>  teTeX requires w3c-libwww
>  w3c-libwww requires teTeX-texmf.
> Is there any way of avoiding this proliferation of packages I don't 
> want, short
> of getting rid of the one that starts the chain?  I deleted glibmm from 
> the gtkmm2
> DEPENDS file, but lin is still getting it from somewhere else.
> 

I think doxygen should be an optinal depends, like gtk-doc is for 
C-based gnome apps.