[cap-talk] Application dependencies

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> (It is still possible to declare unnecessary dependencies. But there is
> an incentive not to since that will cause the app to fail to install on
> more machines. Also, it is easy for an automated tool to detect
> declared dependencies that are not used on a test run.)

Actually it's not necessary to perform specific test runs for this;
just have a flag per dependency of each installed app, saying whether
the dependency has ever been used. That should have negligable
complexity and performance impact.

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David-Sarah Hopwood