* Pierre Colombier:

> nmap is a console tool
> it should not depends of *any* graphical library.

Again, the nmap package does not depend on any graphics libraries.

As "BarthezZ" pointed out almost three years ago the likely cause for
GUI libraries being pulled is:

,----
| that liblinear1 recommends liblinear-tools, which in turn
| recommends libsvm-tools, which depends on gnuplot, which happily install
| an x11 version of itself, hence all the X libraries.
`----

> maybe the package could be split in a "tiny" version and a full
> version wilth all the output plugins the depends of half the internet.

What is built by nmap is alredy split into three packages: The nmap core
package, zenmap (the graphical frontend), and ndiff.

Just use apt with --no-install-recommends or add

  APT::Install-Recommends "false";

to your APT configuration and the problem should go away.

Cheers,
-Hilko

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