Bug#861741: src:sympy: Relax the Recommends dependency chain

Ghislain Antony Vaillant ghisvail at gmail.com
Wed May 3 11:10:50 UTC 2017


Package: src:sympy
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The spyder IDE recommends the installation of sympy, but is yet to be
enabled in the Debian packages. Adding python[,3]-sympy to Recommends
makes the installation jump from a couple 100MB to 2GB, which is
uncomfortably high.  

Indeed, the chain of Recommends would transitively pulls a significant
number of packages, some of which should probably be downgraded to
Suggests to help reduce the installation size of spyder[,3], such as:

- The documentation package: python-sympy-doc,
- The isympy[,3] console scripts,
- The texlive stuff and dvipng.

What are your thoughts?

Cheers,
Ghis


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