Bug#211560: Please consider splitting large-dep tasks

[Ross Burton]

Package: ant
Version: 1.5.4-3 (not installed)
Severity: normal
Tags: sid

Please consider making "ant" work out of the box with smaller
dependancies.

I can install libant1.5, which is nice and small, however to actually
use it from the command line I need to install "ant", which includes
the jython tasks etc.  I don't use these and probably won't so
installing:

antlr jython libbcel-java libcommons-logging-java libedit2 libjdepend-java
liblog4j1.2-java liblogkit-java libreadline-java

just for /usr/bin/ant to exist is a little over the top IMHO.

Could the shell script be added to libant? Or could these larger tasks
be split into libant-optional?

Ross

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
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