Ah, I was not aware install-recommends was a default option. Installing with --no-install-recommends dramatically improves the situation. This is not obvious, sadly, and wastes resources. Suggests may be better as you're not really likely to ask for boinc-manager alone unless you want boinc-manager alone.
Unfortunately there does appear to be an odd error that is solved by install boinc-client: When launching BOINC Manager from the Gnome menu it produces an error that it is unable to find /var/lib/boinc-client, which of course does not exist unless boinc-client is also installed. Launching from the terminal does not produce this error. This is solved by removing the Path= variable from the .desktop file (and logging out/in). [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Version=1.0 Exec=/usr/bin/boincmgr Path=/var/lib/boinc-client Icon=boincmgr-32 Categories=System;Monitor;GTK; Name=BOINC Manager GenericName=BOINC monitor and control utility GenericName[cs]=Monitorovací a ovládací nástroj pro BOINC GenericName[de]=BOINC Überwachungs- und Kontrollprogramm GenericName[pt]=Monitorização BOINC e utilitário de controlo Comment=Configure or monitor a BOINC core client Comment[cs]=Monitoruje a nastavuje klienta BOINC Comment[de]=BOINC Basis Client konfigurieren oder überwachen Comment[pt]=Configurar ou monitorizar o cliente básico do BOINC HOWEVER: This exists so that boincmgr can connect to the client automatically. A better solution was a simple: mkdir /var/lib/boinc-client Then boincmgr does not complain. Unless there is some intelligence that the menu system can use to ignore the Path= if the directory does not exist, then it might be worth adding an empty /var/lib/boinc-client to the boinc-manager package to avoid this error. -- 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
