Re: gnat-gps dependencies

[Pavel Zhukov <pavel@zhukoff.net>]

Thank you, Ludovic.
I had to read Debian documentation first.


Quoting 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.

--
Pavel