Package: openssh-client
Version: 1:5.1p1-5
openssh-client ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openssh-client )
recommends xauth ( http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xauth )
which brings in a lot of X libraries.
Could instead those X recommendations be moved to another package that
comes with X? So if you have X, you get working X forwarding in ssh,
and if you don't have X you don't?
xauth is a tiny add on to X, but a huge addon to ssh.
openssh dependencies have been split out before, see:
ssh-askpass-gnome
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ssh-askpass-gnome
I am aware that one can turn off recommends. But in most cases I find
recommends useful -- unless it brings in something as big and
complicated as X. See also Bug#491324
http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-...@lists.debian.org/msg04327.html
Having the default behavior for a headless system be "X-Free" is a Good
Thing.
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