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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 5/19/20 9:05 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> thanks Bas for the explanation. I believe the default should be no DE -
> how can be the chain of deps be broken?

Talk to the Ubuntu people.

In Debian libnotify4 only Recommends notification-daemon.

> 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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