Bug#724677: libegl1-mesa-dev has a useless indirect dependency to libgl1-mesa-dri
Package: libegl1-mesa-dev
Version: 9.1.3-6
Severity: minor
This bug report actually concerns version 9.1.6-2+b1, the installation of which
I'm putting off due to the reason described here.
libegl1-mesa-dev depends on libegl1-mesa-drivers, which in turn depends on
libgl1-mesa-dri. This is a rather large package (55.3 M), which I do not wish
to install on a headless server that has no hardware supported by the included
drivers. You may think that on modern multi-terabyte hard disks 55 M is
nothing, but if each of the 126 -dev packages on this system depended on 55 M
of useless junk, it would quickly add up.
Please consider adjusting dependencies so that the -dev package only depends on
the stuff necessary for compiling and linking programs, and not large runtimes.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8.4-core2 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libegl1-mesa-dev depends on:
ii libdrm-dev 2.4.45-3
ii libegl1-mesa 9.1.3-6
ii libegl1-mesa-drivers 9.1.3-6
ii libx11-dev 2:1.6.1-1
ii libx11-xcb-dev 2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii libxcb-dri2-0-dev 1.9.1-3
ii libxcb-glx0-dev 1.9.1-3
ii libxdamage-dev 1:1.1.3-2
ii libxext-dev 2:1.3.1-2+deb7u1
ii libxfixes-dev 1:5.0-4+deb7u1
ii libxxf86vm-dev 1:1.1.2-1+deb7u1
ii x11proto-dri2-dev 2.8-2
ii x11proto-gl-dev 1.4.16-2
libegl1-mesa-dev recommends no packages.
libegl1-mesa-dev suggests no packages.
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