Hi, On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 08:10:11PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Vim has the ability to use Gtk+3, but when you install vim, you do not > see apt trying to pull Gtk+3 too: Debian builds several variants of the > package with various options enabled or disabled. > > The same thing would be possible here: > > apt-get install kea-tiny > apt-get install kea-full
I can see why no one has volunteered to do that packaging work though, given the relatively small user base of kea and the work it would be to separate out three different backends. I expect that it happens with the likes of vim because of the relatively large constituency of users that would want vim but not gvim, for example. Having to have some unused packages installed personally doesn't put me off but I can see why it might put some people off. Perhaps if there is some sufficiently motivated user then the maintainers might be open to such a split. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
