Greg Klanderman <greg(a)alphatech.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
Oscar(attribution not cited) wrote:
>> of them depends on some other package. I can't see how a
tool
>> could determine automatically which requirements are really
>> necessary and which just enhance functionality without my writing
>> it explicitely.
Actually I'd guess it is undecidable, which I assume is what
Oscar meant.
Right.
It will have to be done manually, the bytecompile dependencies were
computed manually, but presumably this would be easier if you had
something to run that output a full list of dependent packages first.