On 11/10/11 1:30 PM, Viktor Haag wrote:
> For a long time, I've preferred to use wget over curl, and installing it
> through FInk was quick and easy.
>
> This morning I went to do a fink update, and now all of a sudden wget
> reports all these as dependencies:
>
> autoconf2.6 automake1.11 blt-dev blt-shlibs cpan-meta-pm5123
> cpan-meta-yaml-pm docbook-dsssl-nwalsh
> docbook-dtd docbook-xsl exporter-pm extutils-cbuilder-pm
> extutils-command-pm extutils-install-pm
> extutils-makemaker-pm extutils-makemaker-pm5123
> extutils-manifest-pm file-copy-recursive-pm
> file-temp-pm5123 fontconfig-config fontconfig2-dev
> fontconfig2-shlibs freetype219 freetype219-shlibs
> gdbm3 gdbm3-shlibs getoptbin gnome-doc-utils gnutls26
> gnutls26-shlibs gtk-doc intltool40 json-pp-pm
> libgcrypt libgcrypt-shlibs libgettext8-dev libgpg-error
> libgpg-error-shlibs libidn libidn-shlibs
> libjpeg-bin libjpeg8 libjpeg8-shlibs librarian.08-shlibs
> libsigsegv2 libsigsegv2-shlibs libtasn1-3
> libtasn1-3-shlibs libxml2-py27 libxslt libxslt-bin libxslt-shlibs
> m4 openjade opensp-bin opensp5-dev
> opensp5-shlibs parse-cpan-meta-pm python27 python27-shlibs rarian
> rarian-compat sgml-entities-iso8879
> sqlite3-dev sqlite3-shlibs tcltk tcltk-dev tcltk-shlibs texi2html
> version-pm5123
> version-requirements-pm5123 xdg-base xft2-dev xft2-shlibs
> xml-parser-pm5123
>
>
> Really? /Really/?
>
> This seems a tad overblown -- why all these dependencies all of a
> sudden? At a glance it looks like maybe the 'wget' maintainer(s) have
> moved the documentation over to some sort of system that demands all
> this extra stuff in order to build an info file or a help file or something?
>
Dead wrong.
> If that's the case, and as a general plea, can we maybe offer
> "util-nodocs" package builds to avoid this kind of rampant dependency
> spreadage?
>
> I see absolutely no reason why I should need to install 'gtk-doc',
> freetype, openjade, and a mountain of docbook bumpf just to have access
> to a conveniently built command line utility that fetches web
> resources.... to get the docs for the utillity, I suppose, is the answer?
>
> Given that so many of these utilities have web-hosted docs and resources
> to help users quite nicely, a general policy of "nodocs" versions of the
> packages, or at least a "wget-docs" co-package, might be a great idea
> that would save some of us from this kind of thing?
>
> As it is, I've removed wget, and now am seeking some other way to get it
> that won't load so much extra stuff onto my laptop's HDD...
>
> Sorry if this is a bit ranty: I really like Fink and have been using it
> for years, but this is the second package I've looked at in a few weeks
> (enchant being the other one) that seems to come pre-associated with
> mounds and mounds of dubious dependencies... 8(
>
> --
> V.
>
>
It's a bit ranty, indeed.
This isn't from *wget*, per se.
Package: wget (1.13.4-2)
To install the compiled package...
The following other packages (and their dependencies) must be installed:
gnutls26-shlibs
libgcrypt-shlibs
libgettext8-shlibs
libgpg-error-shlibs
libiconv
libidn-shlibs
The following other packages must not be installed:
fink ( << 0.24.11-1 )
wget-ssl ( << 1.10.1-1 )
To compile this package from source...
The following packages are also compiled at the same time:
[none]
The following other packages (and their dependencies) must be installed:
fink-package-precedence
gettext-bin ( >= 0.17-19 )
gettext-tools ( >= 0.17-17 )
gnutls26
gnutls26-shlibs
libgcrypt
libgcrypt-shlibs
libgettext8-dev
libgettext8-shlibs
libgpg-error
libgpg-error-shlibs
libiconv
libiconv-dev
libidn
libidn-shlibs
The following other packages must not be installed:
[none]
The wget maintainer added the dependencies that wget _upstream_ now
requires, rather than openssl, and you're seeing the build trees for
those.
The wget maintainer is not responsible for how _those_ packages are built.
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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