Thanks for your report(s). * Jonas Stein <n...@jonasstein.de> [Sun, 22 May 2011 23:13:28 +0200], wrote:
> Package: sisu > Severity: wishlist > > i think sisu can work without sql server. > you are correct > Selecting 'sisu' and 'sisu-pdf' suggests 'sisu-postgresql' > > In some environments its forbidden to install a db server, > but it might be allowed to run a local sisu text converter. > > So it would be nice to install sisu without any sql deamons/server > after selecting 'sisu'. > Selecting sisu does 'recommend' the other possible sisu dependencies, including 'sisu-postgresql': apt-cache show sisu In addition to the packages sisu depends on, sisu recommends and suggests some other packages that are not depended on. These additional packages may be useful to use in some circumstances with sisu but are not required/depended on. sisu, sisu-postgresql, sisu-pdf etc. are packaged separately for the reason you mention, in some environments it may not be desirable to pull in the additional dependencies. All code related to sisu is contained in the package sisu, that is, the package sisu contains everything except the dependencies to the larger engines that sisu can use for specific purposes - xetex for pdf; postgresql for search etc. (this means that the package sisu is able to produce latex and all else it would need to populate an sql database for granular search, without the actual xetex engine or database drivers and engine respectively) i.e. sisu-pdf pulls in xetex; sisu-postgresql pulls in postgresql and related drivers (nothing else being added to sisu code). This is I believe what you want and request - the separate packaging of large engines that though sisu uses for certain purposes it does not necessarily have to have... and I believe the way with a debian package to achieve what you request, and be helpful about informing users that fuller utility of the program might be achieved by installing additional packages (that you do not have to install). I hope this explanation is (correct and) satisfactory. I would like to close this bug in the next 10 days. I hope this is ok with you. Ralph Amissah P.S. Sorry for the delay in this response, in this case I (in a rush these days as usual) misread your exchange on irc and mistakenly thought the problem mentioned originated from chals, and explained to chals at a time when you may not have been present. The exchange suggests that you ended up with postgresql (or perhaps with postgresql being updated?) and did not want it. If that is the case you may wish to check the configuration of you apt tool. -- Ralph Amissah (ralph on irc.oftc.net) GPG fp: A5F9 C48C 4059 B688 6CC5 7A42 6F78 18A9 B98F 62B1 * GPG fp: 9267 6F8D E64B CD4B 4880 482E E4AF EBC6 1BB4 B289
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