Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On Qua, 22 Jul 2009, Xan wrote:
> Maybe other person could enlight us.... really c-compiler or  
> subversion are needed?

They aren't really needed.

> $ apt-cache show ikiwiki
> Package: ikiwiki
> Priority: optional
> Section: web
> Installed-Size: 5880
> Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
> Architecture: all
> Version: 2.53.3
> Replaces: ikiwiki-plugin-table
> Provides: ikiwiki-plugin-table
> Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), markdown | libtext-markdown-perl,  
> libhtml-scrubber-perl, libhtml-template-perl, libhtml-parser-perl,  
> liburi-perl
> Recommends: gcc | c-compiler, libc6-dev | libc-dev, subversion |  
> git-core (>= 1:1.5.0) | tla | bzr (>= 0.91) | mercurial | monotone  
> (>= 0.38), libxml-simple-perl, libnet-openid-consumer-perl,  
> liblwpx-paranoidagent-perl, libtimedate-perl,  
> libcgi-formbuilder-perl (>= 3.05), libcgi-session-perl (>= 4.14-1),  
> libmail-sendmail-perl, libauthen-passphrase-perl
> Suggests: viewvc | gitweb | viewcvs, libsearch-xapian-perl,  
> xapian-omega (>= 1.0.5), librpc-xml-perl, libtext-wikiformat-perl,  
> python, python-docutils, polygen, tidy, libxml-feed-perl,  
> libmailtools-perl, perlmagick, libfile-mimeinfo-perl,  
> libcrypt-ssleay-perl, liblocale-gettext-perl (>= 1.05-1),  
> libtext-typography-perl, libtext-csv-perl, libdigest-sha1-perl,  
> graphviz, libnet-amazon-s3-perl
> Conflicts: ikiwiki-plugin-table
> Filename: pool/main/i/ikiwiki/ikiwiki_2.53.3_all.deb
> Size: 917156
>
>
> So only depends on:
> perl (>= 5.6.0-16), markdown | libtext-markdown-perl,  
> libhtml-scrubber-perl, libhtml-template-perl, libhtml-parser-perl,  
> liburi-perl
>
> so why subversion and gcc are installed?

They are recommends, and recommends are installed by default. But you  
can change this.

As for why they are recommended, I have no idea.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br