On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Wookey wrote: > +++ David Goodenough [2009-08-26 16:15 +0100]: > > I just took a debootstrap installed debian system and tried to install > > openssl, only to find that it was about to install Python (all 25MB of > > it). As a recall one of the things that emdebian is trying to remove from > > itself is Python, and so I was wondering what emdebian did for openssl > > (and openvpn) both of which require Python (albeit python-minimal). > > openssl only depends on libc6, libssl0.9.8 , zlib1g > and libssl0.9.8 only depends on libc6, zlib1g, debconf > > so I think python has only come in via a recommends. One thing we do > is turn recommends off by default as that dramatically reduces the > bloat from random utils that might be useful and need python. > > It's actually perl we've worked on removing from Crush, because it is > currently 'essential', but also at least 19Mb (installed). > > But perl and python are largely equivalent in this regard, at least > python dependencies are declared. > > Wookey > -- > Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian > http://wookware.org/
Actually it is openssl-blacklist that contains openssl-vulnkey, and in sid openssl depends on that. And as openssl-vulnkey is written in python it is rather needed. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
