Package: xmlto
Version: 0.0.21-5
Severity: normal
Hi,
apt and aptitude both install Recommends by default.
Doing a install of xmlto on a minimal system will pull over 500M!
of dependencies:
For the numbers:
# aptitude install --with-recommends xmlto
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apt-utils{a} dblatex{a} defoma{a} doc-base{a} docbook-xml{a}
docbook-xsl{a} docbook-xsl-doc-html{a} dvipdfmx{a} ed{a} file{a}
fontconfig-config{a} ghostscript{a} gs-common{a} gsfonts{a}
gsfonts-x11{a} lacheck{a} latex-beamer{a} latex-xcolor{a} lesstif2{a}
libcups2{a} libcupsimage2{a} libdb4.5{a} libexpat1{a} libfontconfig1{a}
libfontenc1{a} libfreetype6{a} libfreezethaw-perl{a} libfribidi0{a}
libgcrypt11{a} libgnutls26{a} libgpg-error0{a} libgs8{a}
libgssapi-krb5-2{a} libice6{a} libjpeg62{a} libk5crypto3{a}
libkeyutils1{a} libkpathsea4{a} libkrb5-3{a} libkrb5support0{a}
libmagic1{a} libmldbm-perl{a} libnewt0.52{a} libopenjpeg2{a}
libpaper-utils{a} libpaper1{a} libpng12-0{a} libpoppler4{a} libpopt0{a}
libsm6{a} libsqlite3-0{a} libt1-5{a} libtasn1-3{a} libtiff4{a}
libuuid-perl{a} libx11-6{a} libx11-data{a} libxau6{a} libxaw7{a}
libxcb1{a} libxdmcp6{a} libxext6{a} libxfont1{a} libxml2{a}
libxml2-utils{a} libxmu6{a} libxp6{a} libxpm4{a} libxslt1.1{a} libxt6{a}
lmodern{a} lsb-release{a} lynx{a} lynx-cur{a} mime-support{a} pgf{a}
preview-latex-style{a} prosper{a} ps2eps{a} psfontmgr{a} python{a}
python-apt{a} python-central{a} python-minimal{a} python-support{a}
python2.5{a} python2.5-minimal{a} sgml-base{a} sgml-data{a} tex-common{a}
texlive{a} texlive-base{a} texlive-base-bin{a} texlive-base-bin-doc{a}
texlive-common{a} texlive-doc-base{a} texlive-extra-utils{a}
texlive-fonts-recommended{a} texlive-fonts-recommended-doc{a}
texlive-generic-extra{a} texlive-generic-recommended{a}
texlive-humanities{a} texlive-humanities-doc{a} texlive-latex-base{a}
texlive-latex-base-doc{a} texlive-latex-extra{a}
texlive-latex-extra-doc{a} texlive-latex-recommended{a}
texlive-latex-recommended-doc{a} texlive-math-extra{a}
texlive-pictures{a} texlive-pictures-doc{a} texlive-pstricks{a}
texlive-pstricks-doc{a} texpower{a} texpower-manual{a} tipa{a}
ttf-dejavu{a} ttf-dejavu-core{a} ttf-dejavu-extra{a} ucf{a} whiptail{a}
x11-common{a} xfonts-encodings{a} xfonts-utils{a} xml-core{a} xmlto
xpdf{a} xpdf-common{a} xpdf-reader{a} xpdf-utils{a} xsltproc{a}
0 packages upgraded, 132 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 248MB/260MB of archives. After unpacking 529MB will be used.
vs
# aptitude install --without-recommends xmlto
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
docbook-xml{a} docbook-xsl{a} libgcrypt11{a} libgpg-error0{a} libxml2{a}
libxml2-utils{a} libxslt1.1{a} sgml-base{a} sgml-data{a} xml-core{a}
xmlto xsltproc{a}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
dblatex docbook-xsl-doc-html docbook-xsl-doc-pdf docbook-xsl-doc-text
libpaper-utils
0 packages upgraded, 12 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3540kB of archives. After unpacking 19.0MB will be used.
This is just a bit too much for my taste. Certainly the list of
Recommends should be tuned a little ;-)
One is within xmlto itself, which recommends texlive, that itself
amounts to 300M of dependencies. I'm not too familiar with all those
different document processing tool chains, so I'll leave it to you and
others to decide, which of the depencies should be demoted to a
Suggests. I'm also aware that it's not xmlto's fault alone and other
packages should adjust their dependencies too. Please clone this bug as
you feel appropriate.
Cheers,
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xmlto depends on:
ii debianutils 2.31Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii docbook-xml 4.5-6 standard XML documentation system,
ii docbook-xsl 1.73.2.dfsg.1-5 stylesheets for processing DocBook
ii libc62.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libxml2-utils2.7.3.dfsg-1XML utilities
ii sgml-base1.26SGML infrastructure and SGML catal
ii xsltproc 1.1.24-2XSLT command line processor
Versions of packages xmlto recommends:
pn dblatex
