Package: openoffice.org-common Version: 2.2.0-7 Severity: wishlist When I say 'aptitude install openoffice.org-calc', I get:
The following NEW packages will be installed: avahi-daemon crystalcursors enscript gcc-3.4-base gnome-themes gtk2-engines gtk2-engines-pixbuf hal hal-info htdig industrial-cursor-theme kamera kappfinder kate kcontrol kde-icons-crystal kdebase kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-kio-plugins kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepasswd kdeprint kdesktop kdm kfind khelpcenter kicker klipper kmenuedit konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole kpager kpersonalizer kregexpeditor ksmserver ksplash ksysguard ksysguardd ktip kwin lapack3 libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavahi-core5 libcurl4-openssl libdaemon0 libevent1 libg2c0 libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0 libgssapi2 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libhunspell-1.1-0 libicu36 libjasper1 libkcddb1 libkeyutils1 libkonq4 libnss-mdns libportaudio2 libsensors3 libstlport5.1 libufsparse lp-solve nfs-common openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-style-andromeda openoffice.org-style-crystal openoffice.org-style-hicontrast openoffice.org-style-industrial openoffice.org-style-tango pmount poster psutils ttf-opensymbol Some of this seems a bit excessive -- the inclusion of htdig, all of KDE, and NFS components in particular is clearly not necessary. I realize that I can simply pass --without-recommends to aptitude, but I'm accustomed to being able to install recommended packages without this sort of explosion, and it seems like a good property to have in package dependencies. I had a look at the dependencies -- it seems that KDE gets pulled in because of openoffice.org-style-crystal, which recommends kde-icons-crystal, which recommends kdebase. htdig comes in turn from KDE (via khelpcenter), and nfs-common is recommended directly by openoffice.org-core (for which I'm sure there is a perfectly logical explanation despite the fact that to me they seem almost comically unrelated). I would advise changing the recommendation for kde-icons-crystal or openoffice.org-style-crystal to a "Suggests", and removing the recommendation for nfs-common entirely unless there is some sort of reason for it (which I'm sure there is; otherwise it wouldn't be there, right?). Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
