[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Server now install a full DE?

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 5/19/20 7:46 AM, Uros Preloznik wrote:
> Can anyone explain why was this change necessary?

The problem seems to be:

 qgis-server Depends:
  python3-qgis Depends:
   python3-qgis-common Depends:
    libqgis-customwidgets Depends:
     qttools5-dev-tools Depends:
      qt5-assistant Depends:
       libqt5webkit5 Depends:
        libqt5positioning5 Recommends:
         geoclue-2.0 Depends:
          libnotify4 Recommends:
           gnome-shell | notification-daemon

And via gnome-shell you many more gnome packages installed.

The change to install Recommends by default was announced in October 2007:

 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/08/msg00000.html

This makes sense because the Debian Policy documents Recommends as:

"
 The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
 with this one in all but unusual installations.
"

 https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#binary-dependencies-depends-recommends-suggests-enhances-pre-depends

Kind Regards,

Bas

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