debianutils and sensible-utils should no longer be essential, they aren't needed for bootstrapping and nothing needs them really, they are utils to help that is all.
also po4a has been long since removed, sorry, I know it's short but everything I time is not coming across properly. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2012-07-01, at 10:26 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:15:18 -0400, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > <f...@snaggledworks.com> wrote: >> >> This is the dependency chain: >> >> debianutils BD-> po4a -> BD-> docbook-utils D-> jadetex, which is provided >> by texlive. >> po4a is the real culprit here. It's dependency list is just too heavy. > > TheSin, looking through the history of the debianutils.info (an Essential > package), I see that you had set the po4a build-depends that Snaggle > mentioned, but did not alter po4a itself despite very explicit notes in core > pacakges that deps of Essential must also be Essential. That's a technical > problem that is now moot since po4a is no longer needed. Going the other way, > I'd like to amplify others and say that it's hella-rude to haul in tex just > to get some docs for a simple utilities package! Tex is huge and has > historically been something of a moving target and susceptible to problems of > its own. We really need fink core coordination for changes to essential > packages (and especially the lists of dependecies of them) to make sure we're > not making a mess. > dan > > -- > Daniel Macks > dma...@netspace.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
