Hi, Am Dienstag, den 23.07.2013, 15:49 -0700 schrieb David Starner: > Package: xmonad > Version: 0.11-5 > Severity: wishlist > > sudo apt-get install xmonad > ... > Need to get 78.4 MB of archives. > After this operation, 514 MB of additional disk space will be used. > > sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install xmonad > ... > Need to get 612 kB of archives. > After this operation, 2,729 kB of additional disk space will be used. > > That's problematic. The default mode for the package shouldn't be 100 > times the space of the basic install. If necessary, there should be an > xmonad-base or xmonad-minimal so people installing xmonad at > high-level ways that always load recommendations can try xmonad > without loading 500 MB of stuff.
xmonad is not very useful without the recommended packages, as you need to have the Haskell environment to configure it. It would confuse especially people who do not know xmonad very well if they could not configure the package after installation. If there are indeed users of an unmodified xmonad (I doubt it a bit), they will have to learn about --no-install-recommends. If you find that the package description does not explain that well enough, please suggest bette wordings. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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