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

[Werner Macho]

Hi !

As far as I can see the solution is in the Link Bas added in his previous
mail.

"To turn this feature off, pass --no-install-recommends to apt or set,
in your apt configuration, APT::Install-Recommends=False."

regards
Werner

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:04 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
wrote:

> 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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