On Monday, 3 October 2016 at 14:14:13 +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > Le 01/10/2016 à 04:35, Julian Elischer a écrit : >> Such a 'minimum' install should probably be the default when coming >> in as a dependency, as there is an increasing tendency to configure >> things with all the bells and whistles. > > The bare minimum will never be the default. The default is what will > fit most people, so that they can use our packages out of the box.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I recently installed a new version of firefox, and I was amazed by the number and nature of the dependencies. It totalled 497 MB, including: Fetching chromium-52.0.2743.116_1.txz: .......... done Fetching opera-12.16_6.txz: .......... done Fetching apache-openoffice-4.1.2_9.txz: .......... done Fetching libreoffice-5.0.6_3.txz: .......... done Fetching gimp-2.8.18,2.txz: . done Fetching hugin-2016.2.0.txz: .......... done Fetching mplayer-1.3.0.20160912_1.txz: .......... done Fetching samba42-4.2.14.txz: .......... done Fetching emacs24-24.5_3,3.txz: .......... done Chromium? Opera? Emacs? Both OpenOffice and LibreOffice? I don't know if this always happens, but there's an issue here. I have a few unfinished thoughts about how it could occur, but so far all I can confirm is that there is an issue. Is there a way to display these dependencies in a tree structure? Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger g...@freebsd.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
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