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

Hilko Bengen bengen at hilluzination.de
Fri Mar 15 20:14:59 UTC 2013


* W. Martin Borgert:

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

fonts-droid and ghostscript are certainly not needed, but I think that
this is an apt configuration issue. Set both APT::Install-Recommends and
APT::Install-Suggests to "false".

Most dependencies are actually needed for libguestfs to function.

-Hilko



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