Package: xterm Version: 333-1 xterm recommends x11-utils. Assuming the default configuration, this brings in a huge list of packages unrelated to xterm's main purpose: Running a shell or another cli program. Sample:
# apt install xterm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libllvm3.9 libpciaccess0 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc libxcb-glx0 libxcb-shape0 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 x11-utils xbitmaps Suggested packages: mesa-utils xfonts-cyrillic The following NEW packages will be installed: libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libllvm3.9 libpciaccess0 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc libxcb-glx0 libxcb-shape0 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 x11-utils xbitmaps xterm 0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 17.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 167 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 167 MByte to have xterm is quite a number. If I manually omit x11-utils, then installing xterm uses just about 2 MByte. I would recommend to move x11-utils to the Suggests list, if such a suggestion is reasonable at all. IMU x11-utils should recommend xterm instead. Regards Harri
