This is still an issue with xenial.
The problem this causes is that on an Ubuntu Server system, installing
any package which depends on openssh-client will also pull in pretty
much the whole X11 system. Example:
root@xenial1:~# apt-get install rancid
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
expect fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1
libdrm-nouveau2
libdrm-radeon1 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
libglapi-mesa libice6
libllvm3.8 libpciaccess0 libperl4-corelibs-perl libsm6 libtcl8.6 libtk8.6
libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
libx11-xcb1 libxaw7 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0
libxcb-shape0
libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6
libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxpm4
libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxss1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1
libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1
tcl-expect tcl8.6 tk8.6 x11-common x11-utils xbitmaps xterm
Suggested packages:
diffstat tcl-tclreadline mesa-utils xfonts-cyrillic
The following NEW packages will be installed
expect fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1
libdrm-nouveau2
libdrm-radeon1 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
libglapi-mesa libice6
libllvm3.8 libpciaccess0 libperl4-corelibs-perl libsm6 libtcl8.6 libtk8.6
libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
libx11-xcb1 libxaw7 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0
libxcb-shape0
libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6
libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxpm4
libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxss1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1
libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1
rancid tcl-expect tcl8.6 tk8.6 x11-common x11-utils xbitmaps xterm
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This is silly. But:
root@xenial1:~# apt-get install rancid --no-install-recommends
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
expect libperl4-corelibs-perl libtcl8.6 tcl-expect
Suggested packages:
tcl8.6 diffstat
Recommended packages:
tcl8.6 tk8.6
The following NEW packages will be installed
expect libperl4-corelibs-perl libtcl8.6 rancid tcl-expect
That's what I expected.
It seems to me that:
* if the system you are using a client is graphical (e.g. Ubuntu
desktop), then you will probably have xauth already
* if the system you are using is text-based, then you definitely don't
want xauth/X11 just to have an ssh client.
So if anything "recommends" xauth, shouldn't it be X11 or the desktop
environment, not the openssh client?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270512
Title:
openssh-client could suggest xauth rather than recommend it
Status in openssh package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
openssh-client is in the standard seed. It recommends xauth, which as
of intrepid pulls the following packages in a basic server install :
xauth
|- libxext6
|- libxmuu1
|- x11-common
It would pull even more if there wasn't already another Recommend bug
in the minimal seed that pulled other X libraries (see bug 270500).
Server systems do pretty well without those packages installed by
default.
Solution: drop the xauth "Recommends" and make it a "Suggests"
instead. Note that xauth gets pulled in in desktop installs through a
xorg Depends, and that in Hardy xauth wasn't in the standard seed.
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