Re: Top 20 unnecessary dependencies [was: Re: A plan to get rid of unnecessary package dependencies]
On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:36:08AM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
>
> In case it's of interest to anyone, I went through the checklib logs
> available on the web page for "problems" and found the libraries that
> are most often listed as bogus dependencies. Here are the top twenty
> offenders, listed with the number of packages that (according to
> checklib) have each as an unnecessary dependency:
>
> 1663: libxext6
out of 2061 packages that have a Depends on it on
unstable/amd64, so that's about 80%
> 1275: libxi6
out of 1393: 91%
> 1196: zlib1g
out of 1796: 66%
> 1174: libx11-6
out of 2502: 47%
> 949: libice6
out of 983: 96%
> 948: libsm6
out of 976: 97%
> 940: libfontconfig1
out of 1136: 82%
> 923: libxrender1
out of 1071: 86%
> 918: libxinerama1
out of 1093: 84%
> 918: libxcursor1
out of 1053: 87%
> 905: libxrandr2
out of 1049: 86%
> 697: libatk1.0-0
out of 850: 82%
> 688: libcairo2
out of 865: 79%
> 636: libgcc1
out of 2277: 28%
> 610: libxfixes3
out of 653: 93%
> 536: libpango1.0-0
out of 881: 71%
> 480: libpng12-0
out of 753: 64%
> 424: libfreetype6
out of 596: 71%
> 394: libart-2.0-2
out of 444: 89%
> 386: libxml2
out of 790: 49%
Kurt
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