Bug#423950: openoffice.org-common: Package recommendations seem excessive
Package: openoffice.org-common
Version: 2.2.0-7
Severity: wishlist
When I say 'aptitude install openoffice.org-calc', I get:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
avahi-daemon crystalcursors enscript gcc-3.4-base gnome-themes
gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf hal hal-info htdig
industrial-cursor-theme kamera kappfinder kate kcontrol kde-icons-crystal
kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs-data
kdelibs4c2a kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepasswd kdeprint kdesktop kdm
kfind khelpcenter kicker klipper kmenuedit konqueror konqueror-nsplugins
konsole kpager kpersonalizer kregexpeditor ksmserver ksplash ksysguard
ksysguardd ktip kwin lapack3 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5
libcurl4-openssl libdaemon0 libevent1 libg2c0 libgphoto2-2
libgphoto2-port0 libgssapi2 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
libhunspell-1.1-0 libicu36 libjasper1 libkcddb1 libkeyutils1 libkonq4
libnss-mdns libportaudio2 libsensors3 libstlport5.1 libufsparse lp-solve
nfs-common openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core
openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal
openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-industrial
openoffice.org-style-tango pmount poster psutils ttf-opensymbol
Some of this seems a bit excessive -- the inclusion of htdig, all of
KDE, and NFS components in particular is clearly not necessary. I
realize that I can simply pass --without-recommends to aptitude, but
I'm accustomed to being able to install recommended packages without
this sort of explosion, and it seems like a good property to have in
package dependencies.
I had a look at the dependencies -- it seems that KDE gets pulled in
because of openoffice.org-style-crystal, which recommends
kde-icons-crystal, which recommends kdebase. htdig comes in turn from
KDE (via khelpcenter), and nfs-common is recommended directly by
openoffice.org-core (for which I'm sure there is a perfectly logical
explanation despite the fact that to me they seem almost comically
unrelated).
I would advise changing the recommendation for kde-icons-crystal or
openoffice.org-style-crystal to a "Suggests", and removing the
recommendation for nfs-common entirely unless there is some sort of
reason for it (which I'm sure there is; otherwise it wouldn't be there,
right?).
Cheers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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