Dependancies.... seem to be awful lot.

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:56:32PM -0500, Luke Faraone wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 20:26, <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
>
>> An 'apt-get install sugar' on a minimal system seems to want to install a
>> lot of packages.
>>
>> Does it really need all of these? For example CUPS on a system which does
>> not support printing....

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There is 2 things here:


1) You are right, sugar does not _need_ CUPS. Sugar either needs or 
recommends other stuff (like dbus and abiword) which then recommends a 
slew of GNOME packages and CUPS.

2) The package "sugar" does not represent the whole sugar environment, 
but only the specific software package called "sugar".

If you use "aptitude --without-recommends" then you'll see what is 
strictly _needed_ by the sugar package, wihtout pulling in stuff that 
is only recommended.

There is currently no package representing "the sugar environment". When 
all needed parts are packaged officially for Debian, I intend to provide 
a metapackage "fructose" that will depend on all packages needed (and 
possibly recommend other packages, that you may avoid installing using 
above mentioned aptitude option).

Hope that helps.


Regards,

Jonas

Debian developer, packaging Sugar packages officially for Debian


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