Scrapy contains many additional code in scrapy.contrib which are extras and not required to run the framework. boto is another example of such dependency, which is even listed as depends (not recommends). The only 3 depends are: python-libxml2, python-twisted, python-openssl (this is optional but highly recommended and it's listed as suggests now).
I would list as recommended: python-pygments, python-imaging (used by a very popular contrib - the images pipeline), and maybe python-guppy (or perhaps in suggests). Packages I can't decide whether to put in suggests or recommends: * ipython (supports an improved shell console - we should probably do the same as django?) * python-boto (enables S3 backend for images pipeline) * python-pygments (supports colorized output in scrapy parse command) * python-guppy (enhances memory debugging capabilities from the telnet console) python-django doesn't fit in either recommends or suggests, IMO. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662423 Title: Recommended packages are excessive To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-scrapy/+bug/662423/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
