Hi Martin, thanks for your report. On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 20:36, W. Martin Borgert <deba...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: python-matplotlib > Version: 0.99.0-1 > Severity: normal > > I believe (= I'm not sure) that the dependency list of > python-matplotlib is far too broad and that some dependencies > can be turned into Recommends, which are installed by default > with both apt and aptitude, or even Suggests.
Ehm, maybe you're right :) > E.g. we use matplotlib in a web application, which is a common > use case, so why would we need Tcl/Tk|GTK+|wxGTK|Qt3|Qt4? Is it Sorry, this won't change. The vast majority of the users of mpl use it interactively or with scripts displaying the output on screen. > impossible that matplotlib works without python-excelerator? Why > is a lot of texlive pulled in when installing matplotlib? I > believe, that this is only necessary for mathtext. Yeah, we can move some packages from depends to recomments/suggests. I'll give a look a this as soon as possible. Cheers, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Python-modules-team mailing list Python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/python-modules-team
