Public bug reported:
The mercurial package pulls in "wish" by default which leads to a huge
list of GUI-based depencies, useless on a headless box.
This is what it looks like during installation:
bob.jimbob@dev-box2:~$ sudo apt-get install mercurial
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libice6 libllvm3.4 libpciaccess0 libsm6
libtcl8.6 libtk8.6 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libutempter0 libx11-xcb1 libxaw7
libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-shape0
libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6
libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxss1 libxt6
libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 mercurial-common tcl tcl8.6 tk
tk8.6 x11-common x11-utils xbitmaps xterm
Suggested packages:
libglide3 qct kdiff3 kdiff3-qt kompare meld tkcvs mgdiff python-mysqldb
python-pygments tcl-tclreadline mesa-utils xfonts-cyrillic
Recommended packages:
wish
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri
libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libice6 libllvm3.4 libpciaccess0 libsm6
libtcl8.6 libtk8.6 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libutempter0 libx11-xcb1 libxaw7
libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-shape0
libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6
libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxss1 libxt6
libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 mercurial mercurial-common tcl
tcl8.6 tk tk8.6 x11-common x11-utils xbitmaps xterm
0 upgraded, 49 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.3 MB of archives.
After this operation, 82.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Compare that to the same command with --no-install-recommends:
bob.jimbob@dev-box2:~$ sudo apt-get install mercurial --no-install-recommends
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
mercurial-common
Suggested packages:
qct kdiff3 kdiff3-qt kompare meld tkcvs mgdiff python-mysqldb
python-pygments
Recommended packages:
wish
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mercurial mercurial-common
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,561 kB of archives.
After this operation, 8,518 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: mercurial (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-55.94-generic 3.13.11-ckt20
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-55-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jul 7 04:09:42 2015
Ec2AMI: ami-69631053
Ec2AMIManifest: (unknown)
Ec2AvailabilityZone: ap-southeast-2a
Ec2InstanceType: m4.xlarge
Ec2Kernel: unavailable
Ec2Ramdisk: unavailable
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: mercurial
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: mercurial (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug ec2-images trusty
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Package pulls in wish and all dependencies by default
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