Re: Bug#500959: Caml-core is bloated
Hello,
On 02-10-2008, Juliusz Chroboczek <Juliusz.Chroboczek@pps.jussieu.fr> wrote:
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> Package: ocaml-core
> Version: 3.10.0.1
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> This package is called ocaml-core, and hence I expected it to install
> a reasonably complete O'Caml environment. It turns out, however, that
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> Depends: ocaml, ocaml-best-compilers, ocaml-findlib, ocaml-tools,
> camlidl, ocamlweb, libounit-ocaml-dev, cameleon, ocamldsort, ledit,
> otags
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> At least half of these should not be pulled in by ocaml-core, there
> should be an ocaml-full package that pulls them in. Particularly
> annoying is ocamlweb, which by default pulls in a very large LaTeX
> installation.
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Are you sure this bug really concern ocaml-core?
If you have something about __ocamlweb__ pulling half of the LaTeX
universe, you should fill a bug against ocamlweb, not ocaml-core!
I think this list is quite short and contains most of what is needed to
program using ocaml...
Regards
Sylvain Le Gall
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