a 1.4 MB package recommended 230 MB of packages :|

[William Hamra]

willy at willy:~$ sudo aptitude install asciidoc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  asciidoc dblatex{a} docbook-dsssl{a} docbook-utils{a} docbook-xsl{a}
docbook-xsl-doc-html{a}
  dvipdfmx{a} jadetex{a} lacheck{a} latex-beamer{a} latex-xcolor{a}
libkpathsea4{a} libostyle1c2{a}
  libsgmls-perl{a} lmodern{a} openjade{a} pgf{a} preview-latex-style{a}
prosper{a} ps2eps{a}
  sgmlspl{a} tex-common{a} texlive{a} texlive-base{a}
texlive-base-bin{a} texlive-base-bin-doc{a}
  texlive-common{a} texlive-doc-base{a} texlive-extra-utils{a}
texlive-fonts-recommended{a}
  texlive-fonts-recommended-doc{a} texlive-generic-extra{a}
texlive-generic-recommended{a}
  texlive-humanities{a} texlive-humanities-doc{a} texlive-latex-base{a}
texlive-latex-base-doc{a}
  texlive-latex-extra{a} texlive-latex-extra-doc{a}
texlive-latex-recommended{a}
  texlive-latex-recommended-doc{a} texlive-math-extra{a}
texlive-pictures{a} texlive-pictures-doc{a}
  texlive-pstricks{a} texlive-pstricks-doc{a} tipa{a} xmlto{a}
0 packages upgraded, 48 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded.
Need to get 231MB of archives. After unpacking 458MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
willy at willy:~$ sudo aptitude install asciidoc --without-recommends
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  asciidoc
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  dblatex docbook-utils xmlto
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,478kB of archives. After unpacking 4,420kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com]^C
willy at willy:~$


i understand recommends are kinda neat to have, i used to install most
of them before the default apt policy was changed to install recommends
by default, but this.... is just extreme. i can not imagine what a
regular user with no expertise would do if he was required to install
asciidoc, i was *shocked* to see 230 MB for such a simple program. took
me till next day to remember checking if recommends are playing a game
on me, and lo and behold, asciidoc just requires 1.4 MB.. lol
sorry for the somewhat *rant*ish message, but recommends should be
somehow explained, and giving the user a choice.
-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
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