Define "dropping". I suggested that

i.e. that the *dependency* be removed. All N900s need pulseaudio. Many/most N900 don't need esd. Hence esd should not be a dependency of pulseaudio, but a recommendation or suggestion or whatever you want to call it.

Every user would still have the freedom of apt-get install'ing esd or whatever other package he or she may want to install.

Personally I don't care about esd, and that's why I took it as an example. CSSU should be more "C" and less (first) "S". Open-sourced versions of Nokia closed-source programs should not be clones, they should bring improvements. Otherwise I *personally* don't care if the source code of a program is available or not (unless I want to modify it myself).

The same goes for dependencies. If Nokia decided that modest needs intellisync or exchange as a dependency, that doesn't mean that they are real dependencies, and hence CSSU should fix those dependencies and make them optional. [ This is just a ficticious example, I don't know if, but I guess that, those dependencies are actually there ]

But hey, as long as each user has the freedom to remove or install a package, what CSSU does or does not is irrelevant..