Comment 51 for bug 527938

> I like to be able to only install what I really want and need.

But why draw the line at the somewhat random division into "modules" then? (Which, as this bug shows, leads to unexpected problems because of inter-dependencies.)

If that possibility had not been there earlier, would you be asking for it? You don't ask "I never use the Drop Caps feature for paragraphs, why can't I leave that code uninstalled", do you?

I.e. you shouldn't assume that the current situation is "natural" and anything else is "unnatural".

> Modules should enforce installation of depended on modules,

So you prefer to risk having bugs like this as long as you can save some tens of megabytes of disk space? The most precious resource we have is developer time. I don't see anybody jumping up and offering to fix this bug... Why intentionally keep doing stuff in a way that causes problems and requires developer time to fix, instead of making stuff cleaner, simpler, and less error-prone?