reassign 459707 xmms retitle 459707 xmms: please split off libxmms into its own package severity wishlist thanks
Hi, On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:58:43AM +0100, Max Kellermann wrote: > collectd recommends libgtk1.2 and xmms. These two should never be > installed on a server, and aptitude by default selects all recommended > packages. This might lead to accidently installing xmms (and all the > gtk and x11 stuff) on a server. Please make that less likely by > degrading some of the "recommends" to "suggests". All of those recommendations are dependencies of collectd's plugins as identified by dpkg-shlibdeps. Currently, libxmms (required by the "xmms" plugin) is shipped inside the "xmms" binary package. Thus, this package has to be installed to fulfill the requirements of the plugin and, therefore, ended up in recommends. This way, novice users will be able to install and use collectd without further thinking about the dependencies of each plugin - advanced users, on the other hand, may make fine-grained decisions about any extra packages they want to pull in. Imho, the best solution for this would be to have a separate package for libxmms which then can be used by packages like collectd which use the library only. That's why I reassigned the bug. This situation will further improve if the dependency detection will be done symbol-based as introduced in dpkg-shlibdeps a while ago. Cheers, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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