Upon further inspection, I was wrong: boinc-manager does NOT depend on boinc-client, it only *recommends* it, which IMHO is a sensible choice. So by default it does pull boinc-client, but you can configure apt not to install recommends, or you can simply remove boinc-client afterwards.
And similarly boinc-client does NOT depend on ia32-libs, it also only recommends it. If you don't install it you simply won't be able to run some projects that wraps 32 bits executables. So I guess both this and debian 730332 bugs are somewhat "already fixed", unless a package recommendation is not satisfatory. References: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/boinc-client http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/boinc-manager (Also note that on Ubuntu Saucy 13.10 onwards the ia32-libs package does not even exist, thanks to multiarch, and all the other dependencies are installed by default in any ubuntu install. So boinc-manager and boinc- client will not pull any extra packages) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250652 Title: Far too many dependencies for boinc-manager To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boinc/+bug/1250652/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
