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Bug#904572: move x11-utils to Suggests



Package: xterm
Version: 333-1

xterm recommends x11-utils. Assuming the default configuration, this
brings in a huge list of packages unrelated to xterm's main purpose:
Running a shell or another cli program. Sample:

# apt install xterm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
  libglapi-mesa libllvm3.9 libpciaccess0 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc libxcb-glx0 libxcb-shape0 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1
  libxxf86vm1 x11-utils xbitmaps
Suggested packages:
  mesa-utils xfonts-cyrillic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
  libglapi-mesa libllvm3.9 libpciaccess0 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc libxcb-glx0 libxcb-shape0 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1
  libxxf86vm1 x11-utils xbitmaps xterm
0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 17.5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 167 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]


167 MByte to have xterm is quite a number. If I manually omit x11-utils,
then installing xterm uses just about 2 MByte.

I would recommend to move x11-utils to the Suggests list, if such a
suggestion is reasonable at all. IMU x11-utils should recommend xterm
instead.


Regards
Harri


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