Package: kipi-plugins Version: 0.1.5-1 Severity: normal Hi
[I considered filing this against gwenview, but gwenview recommending kipi-plugins seem reasonable. The problem is that kipi-plugins acts too much like a meta-package, pulling in too many apps for a package that otther normal packages are recommending.] Today I went to install gwenview in a small virtual machine. sudo aptitude install gwenview ... The following NEW packages will be installed: avahi-daemon{a} cdparanoia{a} cdrdao{a} dvd+rw-tools{a} exiv2{a} genisoimage{a} graphicsmagick{a} graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat{a} gwenview k3b{a} k3b-data{a} kdegraphics-kfile-plugins{a} kipi-plugins{a} kooka{a} libao2{a} libdvdnav4{a} libdvdread3{a} libexiv2-4{a} libflac++6{a} libgphoto2-2{a} libgphoto2-port0{a} libgpod3-nogtk{a} libgraphicsmagick1{a} libieee1284-3{a} libiso9660-5{a} libk3b3{a} libk3b3-extracodecs{a} libkdcraw3{a} libkexiv2-3{a} libkipi0{a} libkscan1{a} libmpcdec3{a} libmpg123-0{a} libmusicbrainz4c2a{a} libnss-mdns{a} libpoppler-qt2{a} libsane{a} libsane-extras{a} libvcdinfo0{a} libwmf0.2-7{a} mpg123{a} ocrad{a} sane-utils{a} vcdimager{a} wodim{a} 0 packages upgraded, 45 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 24.7MB of archives. After unpacking 66.3MB will be used. WTF. I went to install an image viewer, and that image viewer recommended a plugin collection that recommends a whole new set of applications, most of which are only vaguely related to image viewing. (Yes, they do provide ways of obtaining, manipulating, publishing and archiving images. But I wanted an image viewer, not the kitchen sink). >From policy 7.2 Recommends This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. IMNSHO it's perfectly reasonable to install an image viewer like gwenview, and want some of the features kipi-plugins allows, without having kooka/ /k3b/kmail/mpg123/sane-utils etc installed, especially since many of those apps pull in additionally packages not related to kipi-plugins. (What feature(s) does mpg123 support anyway?) >From the description kipi-plugins provides a set of optional plugins for apps to use. As such I believe it should try to avoid pulling in additional applications with significant additional dependencies. Please consider at least reducing the kooka/sane-utils/k3b/mpg123 recommends to suggests and/or split kipi-plugins into multiple packages (eg separate kipi-export-plugins, kipi-scanner-plugins, kipi-camera-plugins, kipi-cd-plugins etc.) so that apps can recommend only the features relevant to them. Thanks for your work in Debian. Andrew V. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages kipi-plugins depends on: ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.0.3-5 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgphoto2-2 2.4.1-1 gphoto2 digital camera library ii libgphoto2-port0 2.4.1-1 gphoto2 digital camera port librar ii libgpod3-nogtk 0.6.0-6 library to read and write songs to ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.9-5 KDE calendaring library ii libkdcraw3 0.1.4-2 Raw picture decoding C++ library ( ii libkexiv2-3 0.1.7-1+b1 Qt like interface for the libexiv2 ii libkipi0 0.1.6-1 library for apps that want to use ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff4 3.8.2-10 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.4-2 X11 client-side library ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.3-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-1 XSLT processing library - runtime Versions of packages kipi-plugins recommends: ii graphicsmagick-imagemag 1.1.11-3.1 image processing tools providing I pn k3b <none> (no description available) ii kdeprint 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-4 print system for KDE ii kmail 4:3.5.9-5 KDE Email client ii konqueror 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-4 KDE's advanced file manager, web b pn kooka <none> (no description available) pn mpg123 <none> (no description available) pn sane-utils <none> (no description available) Versions of packages kipi-plugins suggests: pn gallery <none> (no description available) pn gimp <none> (no description available) pn kipi-plugins-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]