Package: liblinear1 Version: 1.8+dfsg-4 The nmap package depends on liblinear1 for doing IPv6 network fingerprint classification and matching. Because liblinear1 Recommends liblinear-tools, that package and all its dependencies and recommendations are installed when a user executes:
sudo apt-get install nmap Here is one user's report of the accompanying packages installed [1]: # apt-get install nmap Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-droid fonts-liberation ghostscript gnuplot gnuplot-nox groff gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme imagemagick imagemagick-common libblas3 libblas3gf libcairo2 libcroco3 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libdatrie1 libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libexiv2-12 libfontconfig1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgfortran3 libgs9 libgs9-common libice6 libijs-0.35 libilmbase6 libjasper1 libjbig0 libjbig2dec0 liblcms1 liblcms2-2 liblensfun-data liblensfun0 liblinear-tools liblinear1 liblqr-1-0 libmagickcore5 libmagickcore5-extra libmagickwand5 libnetpbm10 libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpcap0.8 libpixman-1-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsm6 libsvm-tools libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libwmf0.2-7 libxaw7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxft2 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrender1 libxt6 netpbm poppler-data psutils ttf-dejavu-core ufraw-batch x11-common Suggested packages: ghostscript-cups ghostscript-x hpijs gnuplot-doc imagemagick-doc autotrace cups-bsd lpr lprng curl enscript ffmpeg gimp grads hp2xx html2ps libwmf-bin mplayer povray radiance sane-utils texlive-base-bin transfig xdg-utils cups-common exiv2 libjasper-runtime liblcms-utils liblcms2-utils liblinear-dev ttf-baekmuk ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp librsvg2-bin poppler-utils fonts-japanese-mincho fonts-ipafont-mincho fonts-japanese-gothic fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-arphic-ukai fonts-arphic-uming fonts-unfonts-core ufraw The following NEW packages will be installed: fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-droid fonts-liberation ghostscript gnuplot gnuplot-nox groff gsfonts hicolor-icon-theme imagemagick imagemagick-common libblas3 libblas3gf libcairo2 libcroco3 libcupsimage2 libdatrie1 libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 libexiv2-12 libfontconfig1 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgfortran3 libgs9 libgs9-common libice6 libijs-0.35 libilmbase6 libjasper1 libjbig0 libjbig2dec0 liblcms1 liblcms2-2 liblensfun-data liblensfun0 liblinear-tools liblinear1 liblqr-1-0 libmagickcore5 libmagickcore5-extra libmagickwand5 libnetpbm10 libopenexr6 libpango1.0-0 libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpcap0.8 libpixman-1-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libsm6 libsvm-tools libthai-data libthai0 libtiff4 libwmf0.2-7 libxaw7 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxft2 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrender1 libxt6 netpbm nmap poppler-data psutils ttf-dejavu-core ufraw-batch x11-common The following packages will be upgraded: libcups2 1 upgraded, 73 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 37.6 MB of archives. After this operation, 106 MB of additional disk space will be used. Nmap itself is not a graphical package, so the majority of these installed packages are bloat. I recommend downgrading liblinear-tools to Suggests status from Recommends. This will still help users find the package, but will allow other packages to depend on liblinear1 without pulling in all these unnecessary packages. Respectfully, Daniel Miller [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/lighter-alternative-to-nmap-4175513111/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
