Public bug reported:
On a current intrepid setup, installing openjdk-6-jre-headless pulls in
several packages that might not be suitable for a server setup : avahi-
daemon, dbus, consolekit, dbus-x11...
They are pulled in through the libnss-mdns Recommends, as well as 24 other
packages. Complete list follows:
avahi-daemon libavahi-common3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-core5 libdaemon0
libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 dbus consolekit libck-connector0 libdbus-glib-1-2
libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libpam-ck-connector dbus-x11 bind9-host
libbind9-40 libcap2 libdns43 libisc44 libisccfg40 libisccc40 liblwres40 libxml2
xml-core sgml-base perl perl-modules
As we want to promote usage of Java-based software on Ubuntu server, we
might need a basic openjdk-6-jre-headless package that can be used as a
dependency for a Java server package without pulling in too many
packages.
I propose to downgrade the libnss-mdns recommend to a suggest (for
openjdk-6-jre-headless), resulting in going from 37 dependencies for
that runtime on a bare install to a more healthy 9.
According to the changelog, this Recommend was added for 6b09-1~pre1,
but I am not sure it qualifies for something you want to find on all but
specific setups ?
Proposed patch follows.
** Affects: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Installing openjdk-6-jre-headless pulls in dbus/avahi
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/261847
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