Bug#942362: zenity: Stupid dependencies that pull a lot of useless stuff, e.g. spellchecking packages

jim_p pitsiorisj at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 09:46:13 BST 2019


Package: zenity
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I write this as a followup of #927155, now that synaptic no longer depends on
zenity.
Installing zenity as a dependency for any package pulls libwebkit2gtk,
libwebkit2gtk pulls libenchant, libenchant pulls aspell-en and the rest and we
end up with 100+MB of useless stuff.
So please add what is not really necessary as recommended or suggested
dependency.

Thank you.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages zenity depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.29-2
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0    2.40.0+dfsg-1
ii  libglib2.0-0          2.62.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0            3.24.12-1
ii  libnotify4            0.7.8-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0        1.42.4-7
pn  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37  <none>
ii  libx11-6              2:1.6.8-1
pn  zenity-common         <none>

zenity recommends no packages.

zenity suggests no packages.



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