[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#917421: cwltool: should probably recommend (not depend on) python3-prov

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Andreas Tille (2019-12-06 15:29:48)
> Hi Jonas,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 03:15:07PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > 
> > On one fairly minimal system, installing python3-gov requires 489MB.  
> > Suppressing recommendations of python3-networksx instead requires 160MB.
> > 
> > Too bad these libraries are not optional :-(
> 
> As far as I can tell cwltool is typically not installed on fairly
> minimal systems (besides possibly debci machines or so).  Usually there
> are a bunch of bioinformatics tools installed that are not really small.
> 
> So as far as I can see the strong dependency is no practical
> disadvantage for the user.

For the record, I find it irrelevant and wrong to take into account 
which other packages the same kind of users would commonly install, when 
considering strength of (non-meta)package relations.


 - Jonas

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