The Debian Policy Manual, Chapter 7, defines a Recommends as a "strong, but not absolute, *dependency*" (emphasis added.) These documentation packages should be Suggests, defined as packages that "can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable". These packages take approximately 230MB and are superfluous, and compared to ~15MB for an example package+dependencies, is extreme. 230MB worth of text documentation is a lot to recommend.
-- texlive depends on docs that take up more space than the software https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
