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Bug#556142: Move openssh-client recommendation of xauth to an X related package



Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:5.1p1-5

openssh-client ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openssh-client )
recommends xauth ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xauth )
which brings in a lot of X libraries.

Could instead those X recommendations be moved to another package that comes with X? So if you have X, you get working X forwarding in ssh, and if you don't have X you don't?

xauth is a tiny add on to X, but a huge addon to ssh.

openssh dependencies have been split out before, see:
ssh-askpass-gnome
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ssh-askpass-gnome

I am aware that one can turn off recommends. But in most cases I find recommends useful -- unless it brings in something as big and complicated as X. See also Bug#491324 http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-ssh@lists.debian.org/msg04327.html

Having the default behavior for a headless system be "X-Free" is a Good Thing.





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