Re: gnat-gps dependencies

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Pavel Zhukov <pavel@zhukoff.net> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I've decided to deploy my webapplication on VPS powered by Debian and
> was suprised a little bit because "apt-get install libaws libaws-dev
> libaws-bin" installed gnat-gps gnat-gps-doc python-gtk2 etc.
>
> Is it kind of expected for server without X system?
>
> --
> Pavel
>
> P.S. I did not use Debian system befote

In your case:

libaws2.10.2-dev requires gnat; gnat recommends gnat-gps; gnat-gps
recommends gnat-gps-doc and python-gtk2 (and requires a lot of
libraries).

Unfortunately, apt-get installs recommended packages by default; I
systematically change this behaviour whenever I install Debian (but I
use aptitude, not apt-get).  You can change the behavior of apt-get in
two ways:

- use apt-get install --no-install-recommends

- create a new file under /etc/apt/apt.conf.d and add the following line
  in it:

APT::Install-Recommends "false";

HTH

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.