[Mediawiki-l] dependencies woes with Debian MediaWiki package

[Simon Jolle sjolle]

Hi MediaWiki Admins

I have here VDS with minimal Debian installation. Why Debian wish to
install me Firefox, Gnome/GTK+ components, X11 components, Latex, Sound
server, portmap, quite enough libraries etc.

Does MediaWiki really have that much dependencies?

Do I really need 671 MB wasted diskspace for a PHP/MySQL web application?

# aptitude install mediawiki mediawiki-extensions
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  dbus dictionaries-common esound-clients esound-common fam fontconfig
freetype1-tools gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-keyring
  gnome-mime-data gs-common gs-gpl gsfonts gsfonts-x11 gv
hicolor-icon-theme hlatex-fonts-base hlatex-fonts-extra
  iceape-browser iceape-gnome-support imagemagick latex-beamer
latex-cjk-all latex-cjk-chinese
  latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp
latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp
  latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp latex-cjk-common latex-cjk-japanese
latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab latex-cjk-korean
  latex-cjk-thai latex-xcolor lesstif2 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data
libaudiofile0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data
  libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcairo2
  libcompress-zlib-perl libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libesd0 libfam0
libfont-afm-perl libfontenc1 libfs6 libgconf2-4
  libglade2-0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0
libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0
  libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0
libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-0
  libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libhal-storage1 libhal1
libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl
  libhtml-tree-perl libice6 libidl0 libjasper-1.701-1 libkpathsea4
liblcms1 libmagick9 libmailtools-perl libmyspell3c2
  liborbit2 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpaper-utils libpaper1
libpoppler0c2 libsm6 libsmbclient libtiff4
  libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxaw7 libxcursor1 libxext6
libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1
  libxml-parser-perl libxmu6 libxp6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6
lmodern mediawiki1.7 mediawiki1.7-math mozilla-browser
  myspell-en-us perl-tk pgf portmap preview-latex-style psfontmgr
psutils shared-mime-info tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-doc
  tetex-extra tex-common texinfo x-ttcidfont-conf xaw3dg
xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xpdf xpdf-common xpdf-reader
  xpdf-utils xutils xutils-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dbus dictionaries-common esound-clients esound-common fam fontconfig
freetype1-tools gconf2 gconf2-common gnome-keyring
  gnome-mime-data gs-common gs-gpl gsfonts gsfonts-x11 gv
hicolor-icon-theme hlatex-fonts-base hlatex-fonts-extra
  iceape-browser iceape-gnome-support imagemagick latex-beamer
latex-cjk-all latex-cjk-chinese
  latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bkai00mp latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00lp
latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp
  latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gkai00mp latex-cjk-common latex-cjk-japanese
latex-cjk-japanese-wadalab latex-cjk-korean
  latex-cjk-thai latex-xcolor lesstif2 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data
libaudiofile0 libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data
  libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common
libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcairo2
  libcompress-zlib-perl libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libesd0 libfam0
libfont-afm-perl libfontenc1 libfs6 libgconf2-4
  libglade2-0 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libgnome-keyring0 libgnome2-0
libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0
  libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0
libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2.0-0
  libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common libhal-storage1 libhal1
libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl
  libhtml-tree-perl libice6 libidl0 libjasper-1.701-1 libkpathsea4
liblcms1 libmagick9 libmailtools-perl libmyspell3c2
  liborbit2 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpaper-utils libpaper1
libpoppler0c2 libsm6 libsmbclient libtiff4
  libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxaw7 libxcursor1 libxext6
libxfixes3 libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1
  libxml-parser-perl libxmu6 libxp6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6
lmodern mediawiki mediawiki-extensions mediawiki1.7
  mediawiki1.7-math mozilla-browser myspell-en-us perl-tk pgf portmap
preview-latex-style psfontmgr psutils
  shared-mime-info tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-doc tetex-extra tex-common
texinfo x-ttcidfont-conf xaw3dg xfonts-encodings
  xfonts-utils xpdf xpdf-common xpdf-reader xpdf-utils xutils xutils-dev
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  php-geshi
0 packages upgraded, 143 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 257MB/262MB of archives. After unpacking 671MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

cheers
Simon

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