On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:55:37PM +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >>>>> Harald Dunkel <harald.dun...@aixigo.de> writes: > > > 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:
xterm actually should recommend luit, which is not yet a separate package
see #1003130 and #1003770:
https://mentors.debian.net/package/luit/
once that's completed, the xterm package should be changed to recommend luit
(about 130kb for that package, no dependencies except that it might suggest
the xfonts-encodings package).
> There’re several ways to resolve the issue, one of which is
> indeed to move luit into a package of its own, though I can’t
> say I’m particularly fond of practices that lead to the
> expansion of the Packages files, as well as /var/lib/dpkg/.
that's unclear (there's only ~66 thousand packages so far)
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