Package: mercurial Version: 1.0-4 Severity: normal This is at worse an annoyance. The Mercurial package recommends kdiff3 (for very good reasons). On a desktop system this is alright but on a console server, this brings in a ton of libraries that should not be installed.
Installing with aptitude --without-recommends install just mercurial and mercurial-common. The mercurial package should be cloned or split in two. By cloning I mean creating a mercurial-nox package which comes with X extensions disabled. Splitting the package would mean removing the extensions that need X from the main package into another package. This would require an additional virtual package for compatibility. I don't know if there is a policy about this kind of but you seem to care about that for disabling extensions based on whether 'wish' is present or not. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers oldstable APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mercurial depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii mercurial-common 1.0-4 Scalable distributed version contr ii python 2.5.2-1 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-support 0.7.7 automated rebuilding support for P ii ucf 3.006 Update Configuration File: preserv Versions of packages mercurial recommends: ii kdiff3 0.9.92-2 compares and merges 2 or 3 files o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
