[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#1025666: Bug#1025666: Bug#1025666: Installing npm on 11.5 pulls x11

[Jérémy Lal]

Le mer. 7 déc. 2022 à 14:57, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> a écrit :

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> Le mer. 7 déc. 2022 à 14:33, Yadd <yadd at debian.org> a écrit :
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>> On 07/12/2022 09:30, Pierre-Gildas MILLON wrote:
>> > Package: npm
>> > Version: 7.5.2+ds-2
>> >
>> > I'm building a python3.10-slim docker image with pm2 for development
>> > purposes. When running apt install npm (to install pm2), I end up with
>> > x11 installed:
>> >
>> > # apt install npm
>> > [...]
>> > 0 upgraded, 393 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
>> > Need to get 132 MB of archives.
>> > After this operation, 512 MB of additional disk space will be used.
>> >
>> > This seems way to much just for npm running on a headless environment.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > pgmillon
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> npm has a lot of features and depends on nodejs and its eco-system.
>> Installing npm from npmjs.org + nodejs requires the same space.
>>
>> When building your docker image, you can safely remove /usr/share/nodejs
>> and nodejs packages after using npm.
>
>
> Also, I remember that some dependency of npm (maybe the one that calls
> xdg-open)
> recommends or suggests some x11 packages, and one can inadvertently
> install those,
> but it was possible to not install them (by installing only dependencies).
> Sorry for the lack of details, I don't remember right away the name of the
> package.
>

It's probably node-opener, which calls xdg-open, which is in the xdg-utils
package so it depends on it.
Unfortunately, while xdg-open itself is a simple script, xdg-utils depends
on a lot of other stuff.

Jérémy
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