severity 500959 wishlist thanks On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:23:52AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > This package is called ocaml-core, and hence I expected it to install > a reasonably complete O'Caml environment.
That's the purpose, yes. > Depends: ocaml, ocaml-best-compilers, ocaml-findlib, ocaml-tools, camlidl, > ocamlweb, libounit-ocaml-dev, cameleon, ocamldsort, ledit, otags > > At least half of these should not be pulled in by ocaml-core, there > should be an ocaml-full package that pulls them in. Particularly > annoying is ocamlweb, which by default pulls in a very large LaTeX > installation. Those packages where there to provide various tools that are expected to be needed while programming in general. ocamlweb was there for literate programming needs, but I do agree that nowadays it is probably no longer needed, mainly because ocamldoc works properly now (it didn't when ocamlweb was added to ocaml-core). Regarding the other "half of these" please make names of what you think is bloated and why you think so. A few comments of mine: - ocamldsort: we can get rid of this, nowadays we have ocamlbuild which is able to sort modules topologically by itself - ounit: it is the only regression testing framework we have, we should keep it - ledit: can be relaxed using alternatives over other line-editing tools available in debian - cameleon: should stay, it is the only IDE we have (beside Emacs, but I don't want to force users to use it) - otags: should stay, especially because it provides system-wide tags for the standard library Summarizing: what else do you want to be removed from ocaml-core? Question open to suggestions: now that Recommends are installed by default, should maybe all the Depends of ocaml-core be demoted to Recommends? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time
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