Bug#900060: apt-get build-dep debian-policy installs too much
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> I'm afraid to ask, but: why does python-gtk2 depend on numpy ? Don't
> get me wrong, I like numpy, but, err, needed for gtk ?
> Also, does dia really need python-gtk2 for the invocations we are
> using ? Or, indeed for most of its invocations ? ... looks at the
> manpage ... oh it's primarily a gui program. *sigh*
Yeah, it's a GUI program we're running in batch mode. In an ideal world,
there would be some separate library and CLI tool that would do batch
conversions that would be kept separate from all the GUI machinery, but
I'm sure life is short for upstream and they haven't had an obvious reason
to bother with this.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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