Le 22/05/2016 18:13, Irrwahn a écrit :
On Sun, 22 May 2016 17:12:35 +0200, Emninger wrote:
Anyone here knows, why the hell the installation of xpdf (in devuan)
needs to deinstall lxde and lxde-desktop-tasks?
Does it? I was unable to locate any dependencies in lxde
or xpdf that might form such a mutual exclusion. What was
the actual error message you got?
[...]
Me, as a simple user, i would like to suggest, that capable people step
by step might have a look in all this dependency spiderweb (with the
obvious target to cut all of it which not really is needed).
[...]
I am certain almost nobody would object to that proposal.
But it would need a notable number of people to step up
and act as package maintainers to accomplish the task,
namely to cut down to a tolerable size that giant maze of
dependencies created by generations of Debian maintainers.
Sure there are the "recommends" and the decision of the maintainer
when creating the *-task package, but I have the impression the problem
is also upstream. The authors cherry-pick libraries providing features
they need. I noticed long ago some application (don't remember which)
which has no relation with the www but depends on some Apache library.
Didier
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