On 28/07/13 02:04, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 01:46:31AM +0200, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> I don't know much about debian, but dmd itself doesn't need X, nor >> should phobos. I compile and run D programs on headless web servers >> every day. >> >> If you can't ignore the dependencies with the apt, downloading the >> dmd zip file should be just about as easy and it doesn't pull >> anything else with it. > > OK, I just checked the .deb from dlang.org. It has a dependency on > xdg-utils, which Recommends: x11-utils and x11-server-utils. That's the > culprit; installing x11-utils and x11-server-utils will pull in a > truckload of X11 stuff. > > Running apt-get with --no-install-recommends should avoid the problem. > > On that note, though, why on earth are we depending on xdg-utils? The > package description says: > > xdg-utils contains utilities for integrating applications with the > desktop environment, regardless of which desktop environment is used. > They are part of freedesktop.org's Portland project. > > Why does DMD need desktop integration?? > > At most, xdg-utils should be a Recommends:, if not outright removed from > the dependency list. It doesn't belong in Depends:, for sure. >
As Vladimir Panteleev said, dman utility needs xdg-utils installed to run. I think that moving xdg-utils from Depends: to Recommends: will worsen the problem. xdg-utils has not Depends: packages, only Recommends: and Suggests: Recommends: libfile-mimeinfo-perl, libnet-dbus-perl, libx11-protocol-perl, x11-utils, x11-xserver-utils Suggests: gvfs-bin So, if we move xdg-utils to Recommends:, and the system is set to install the Recommends: packages, the behavior will not change at all, but in a system that is not set to install Recommends: packages, dman should not work. Regards, -- Jordi Sayol
