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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi all,
thanks Bas for the explanation. I believe the default should be no DE -
how can be the chain of deps be broken?
Cheers.

Il 19/05/20 08:47, Sebastiaan Couwenberg ha scritto:
> 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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