Dependencies Policy?

[John Layt]

Hi,

I was wondering if we need to define a "New Dependencies" policy, or at least 
some guidelines to remind people what to think about when choosing or creating 
new dependencies?

Something like:
* All new dependencies must be advised to the kde-build and kde-packager lists
* Any changes to KDE Development Platform dependencies (or to KDE Support 
projects that the dev platform depends on) to be discussed on k-c-d first
* Only depend on packages with a stable release
* Pick dependencies with api/abi guarantees or well managed .so versioning
* What's our attitude to inherited dependencies at both build and runtime, 
i.e. are libraries or services that use GConf/DConf/Glib/etc acceptable?
* Optional dependencies preferred, try ensure a sensible fallback if not 
available

Any other points?

John.