Hi, (this is not a complain, just an inquiry)
While installing Racket on a small server, I wanted to avoid installing gui and doc related libraries. The minimal install was great! Then I wanted to install a package of my own (the aptly named "bazaar"), which requires "images" and other gui libs (which I actually would not use on the server), among other things, but no doc But the "images" package draws racket-doc and gui-doc dependencies, which in turn draws practically all of Racket. And it then takes a much longer time for `raco setup` to do its job that I had hoped for. Certainly, this can be resolved by splitting "images" and "bazaar" into lib, gui and docs packages, but I foresee another problem: It's difficult to enforce such a split for third-party libraries, as it puts the burden on the user. And the first package like that to be installed will again draw all of Racket dependencies. This is probably not a trivial matter, but what can be done about this? My dream would be that gui and doc dependencies are never triggered, without preventing the packages I actually use to be downloaded, but I don't know how this could actually be ensured without a good amount of magic. Merely preventing downloads does not sound like a good option though. I bet you've already discussed this far and wide, so are there any plans? Laurent
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