* Konstantin Khomoutov <flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> [2009-12-13 14:15:49
CET]:
> > ejabberd wants to install all this unneeded xserver stuff:
> >
> > xmpp:~# aptitude -Vt unstable install ejabberd
> [...]
> > 11 packages upgraded, 102 newly installed, 0 to remove and 168 not
> > upgraded.
>
> This is due to captcha support introduced in 2.1.0: the captcha generation
> script uses imagemagick, and thus I have added it to the Recommends clause.
>
> I think we should consider downgrading this dependency to Suggests.
Yes, I think that would be a good approach, at least for the time
being.
> Also Gerfried Fuchs told me graphicsmagick has a satellite package
> providing compatibility with imagemagick, and graphicsmagick seems not
> to depend on X stuff, only on graphics- and font manipulation libraries.
There is a depends in graphicsmagick on libx11-6 so that pulls in quite
a fair bit of dependencies too. And actually, installing imagemagick
without recommends uses 37.8MB, graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
without recommends uses 87.7MB (according to a quick check in a current
squeeze chroot). Including recommends they are almost the same size.
So like written, downgrading it to a suggests is a sane approach for
the time being, but we should document it in README.Debian as needed
requirement for the captcha support.
Thanks. :)
Rhonda
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