reassign 314376 libgd2-xpm thanks On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:47:12AM +0200, MP wrote: > Package: php4-gd > Version: 4:4.3.10-15 > Severity: wishlist
> php4-gd from oldstable have dependencies:
> libgd1 (>= 1.8.4-11) or libgd1-noxpm (>= 1.8.4-11)
> but php4-gd from new stable have dependencies only libgd2-xpm and no
> alternative for libgd2-noxpm
> This way it is forcing useless libraries to system
> (apt-get install libgd2-xpm is telling these will remove libgd2-noxpm and
> install 13.4Mb of useless stuff)
> Pretty bad for routers with small harrdisk (either some old piece of HDD
> or CF-IDE reduction with some 256 mb compactflash or so)
Why the hell would you want php4-gd on a router?
The full set of packages pulled in by libgd2-xpm on a base system is as
follows:
ucf file libmagic1
-- all common dependencies of lots of other packages
libfreetype6 libjpeg62 libpng12-0
-- also installed by libgd2-noxpm
libexpat1
-- a dependency of all of the PHP4 binaries
libfontconfig1 defoma fontconfig ttf-bitstream-vera
-- these are not dependencies of libxpm4, and there's no obvious reason
why this should be a difference between libgd2-xpm and libgd2-noxpm,
as this has nothing at all to do with XPM images.
libxpm4 xfree86-common
-- these are the real dependencies needed for xpm support, and account
for less than 1MB of space used.
libx11-6 xlibs-data
-- these are pulled in because of a spurious dependency of libgd2-xpm
on libx11-6, and account for 9MB of the space used.
So, this last is a bug in libgd2-xpm that should be fixed.
> What point is with having alternatives, if there is no choice in
> dependencies? I think the dependency should be changed to libgd2-xpm or
> libgd2-noxpm
I don't believe there is any point in having these alternatives. I would
love to see these extra dependencies fixed, and the libgd2-noxpm package
dropped for etch.
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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