[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#703096: libguestfs-tools: too many stramge dependencies

[W. Martin Borgert]

Package: libguestfs-tools
Version: 1:1.18.1-1+deb7u1

In need of virt-resize, I'm about to install libguestfs-tools,
however the amount of dependencies is a little bit strange:

# apt-get install libguestfs-tools
...
0 upgraded, 87 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 38.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 120 MB of additional disk space will be used.

While 120 MB is not much nowadays, I wonder whether indirect
dependencies on e.g. aptitude, fonts-droid, ghostscript,
ico-utils, or netpbm can be avoided somehow? Maybe the
package could be split accordingly? TIA!