This is still an issue with xenial. The problem this causes is that on an Ubuntu Server system, installing any package which depends on openssh-client will also pull in pretty much the whole X11 system. Example:
root@xenial1:~# apt-get install rancid Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: expect fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libice6 libllvm3.8 libpciaccess0 libperl4-corelibs-perl libsm6 libtcl8.6 libtk8.6 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libx11-xcb1 libxaw7 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxss1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 tcl-expect tcl8.6 tk8.6 x11-common x11-utils xbitmaps xterm Suggested packages: diffstat tcl-tclreadline mesa-utils xfonts-cyrillic The following NEW packages will be installed expect fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libice6 libllvm3.8 libpciaccess0 libperl4-corelibs-perl libsm6 libtcl8.6 libtk8.6 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 libx11-xcb1 libxaw7 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-sync1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxss1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1 rancid tcl-expect tcl8.6 tk8.6 x11-common x11-utils xbitmaps xterm 0 to upgrade, 53 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade. Need to get 20.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 172 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n This is silly. But: root@xenial1:~# apt-get install rancid --no-install-recommends Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: expect libperl4-corelibs-perl libtcl8.6 tcl-expect Suggested packages: tcl8.6 diffstat Recommended packages: tcl8.6 tk8.6 The following NEW packages will be installed expect libperl4-corelibs-perl libtcl8.6 rancid tcl-expect That's what I expected. It seems to me that: * if the system you are using a client is graphical (e.g. Ubuntu desktop), then you will probably have xauth already * if the system you are using is text-based, then you definitely don't want xauth/X11 just to have an ssh client. So if anything "recommends" xauth, shouldn't it be X11 or the desktop environment, not the openssh client? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to openssh in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/270512 Title: openssh-client could suggest xauth rather than recommend it Status in openssh package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: openssh-client is in the standard seed. It recommends xauth, which as of intrepid pulls the following packages in a basic server install : xauth |- libxext6 |- libxmuu1 |- x11-common It would pull even more if there wasn't already another Recommend bug in the minimal seed that pulled other X libraries (see bug 270500). Server systems do pretty well without those packages installed by default. Solution: drop the xauth "Recommends" and make it a "Suggests" instead. Note that xauth gets pulled in in desktop installs through a xorg Depends, and that in Hardy xauth wasn't in the standard seed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssh/+bug/270512/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
