Does Aptitude pull in too much cruft (e.g. suggestions of dependencies)?
Hi all, thank you all for producing such nice software (apt-get,
aptitude, synaptic, wajig, etc.)
My question is:
Recently I did: sudo aptitude install gnomemeeting. Gnomemeeting seems
to have pulled in 77 packages, including recommendations:
cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client docbook-xml evolution-data-server
foomatic-db foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters gnome-doc-utils
gnome-icon-theme gnome-mime-data libavahi-glib1 libavc1394-0
libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common
libcamel1.2-8 libcroco3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdc1394-13 libdirectfb-0.9-24
libdv4 libebook1.2-5 libecal1.2-3 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-1
libedataserver1.2-7 libegroupwise1.2-9 libglade2-0 libgnome2-0
libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common
libgnomecups1.0-1 libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data
libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomeui-0
libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra
libgsf-1-114 libgsf-1-common libhal-storage1 libhal1 libmozjs0d
libnspr4-0d libnss3-0d libopenh323-1.18.0 libpt-1.10.0
libpt-plugins-alsa libpt-plugins-avc libpt-plugins-dc libpt-plugins-oss
libpt-plugins-v4l libpt-plugins-v4l2 libraw1394-5 librsvg2-2
librsvg2-common libsdl1.2debian libsdl1.2debian-alsa libslp1
libsmbclient libsoup2.2-8 libsysfs2 libxml2-utils libxul0d
python-libxml2 python2.3-libxml2 sgml-data shared-mime-info smbclient
xsltproc yelp
I am low on disk space on this machine. Should aptitude really pull in
recommendations of dependencies, like both yelp (Gnome help) and
gnomeprint which it depends on? Could there be a way to intelligently
prompt the user to leave out certain Suggestions which would use up a
lot of disk space if the user was low on disk space?
Please CC me,
Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
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