On Sun, 22 May 2016 18:41:32 +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 22/05/2016 18:13, Irrwahn a écrit : [...] >> 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,
I was not concerned about the *Recommends* (I have configured APT::Install-Recommends "0"; anyway), but about the *Depends*. In the example you snipped lxde actually *Depends* on galculator etc.! Otherwise I would not even have objected. > 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. True. Alas, there is only so much a package maintainer can do about a messy upstream. Regards Urban _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
