On 09/04/14 19:14, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Hello > > On Monday 07 April 2014 16:44:47 you wrote: >> Together, these are responsible for pulling in 53 PERL packages as >> dependencies of lcdproc on my system. I feel that this is excessive, >> especially considering the relatively minor functionality that these >> packages provide (namely, to be able to upgrade the configuration file on >> package upgrades). > > ok. many packages are installed, but you don't need to worry about them. I > don't understand why you consider this is a problem.
I consider this a problem because it's a lot of packages that simply are not going to be used on these systems. A number of drivers are split into the lcdproc-extra-drivers package to avoid all users having to install large parts of X11, I think it would be kind to users to allow them not to install a large number of optional packages. >> Can this functionality please be made optional at the very least? > > It is. You will be asked whether to allow automatic upgrade or not. Could the config model packages be turned into a Recommends rather than a Depends, so that they don't have to be installed at all? It's really helpful to those of us who would like to maintain as minimal a system as possible. For example, I'd like to use lcdproc on a firewall system, and keeping the attack surface as small as possible is a common goal for this type of system. Thanks, Chris -- Chris Boot deb...@bootc.net GPG: 8467 53CB 1921 3142 C56D C918 F5C8 3C05 D9CE EEEE -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
