On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:55:37PM +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > >>>>> Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de> writes: > > > 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: xterm actually should recommend luit, which is not yet a separate package see #1003130 and #1003770: https://mentors.debian.net/package/luit/ once that's completed, the xterm package should be changed to recommend luit (about 130kb for that package, no dependencies except that it might suggest the xfonts-encodings package). > There’re several ways to resolve the issue, one of which is > indeed to move luit into a package of its own, though I can’t > say I’m particularly fond of practices that lead to the > expansion of the Packages files, as well as /var/lib/dpkg/. that's unclear (there's only ~66 thousand packages so far) -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net> https://invisible-island.net ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net
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