Bug#491324: marked as done (ssh depends on too many packages (x11, ...))
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has caused the Debian Bug report #491324,
regarding ssh depends on too many packages (x11, ...)
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Package: ssh
Version: 1:4.7p1-12
Severity: normal
Installing ssh (metapackage) on a fresh system (just base system
installed), I note that ssh pull those dependencies :
libx11-6
libx11-data
libxau6
libxcb-xlib0
libxcb1
libxdcmp6
libxext6
libxmmu1
x11-common
xauth
I mean that installing a minimal system or a server system, I do not
want X11.
Is this reasonable ?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii openssh-client 1:4.7p1-12 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii openssh-server 1:4.7p1-12 secure shell server, an rshd repla
ssh recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:23:50AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Michel Briand <michelbriand@free.fr> writes:
> > Installing ssh (metapackage) on a fresh system (just base system
> > installed), I note that ssh pull those dependencies :
> >
> > libx11-6
> > libx11-data
> > libxau6
> > libxcb-xlib0
> > libxcb1
> > libxdcmp6
> > libxext6
> > libxmmu1
> > x11-common
> > xauth
> >
> > I mean that installing a minimal system or a server system, I do not
> > want X11.
> >
> > Is this reasonable ?
>
> If you're installing a minimal system, you generally don't want to install
> Recommends. Installing Recommends is the default, but you can change that
> easily in your local apt configuration. The above is due to the
> Recommends on xauth (required for X forwarding), not due to a dependency.
Right. If we didn't do this, we'd conversely get a lot of bug reports
that X forwarding didn't work. I don't think we can win here except by
you turning off installation of Recommends when you don't want it, so I
don't really consider this a bug.
Thanks,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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