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Bug#423950: openoffice.org-common: Package recommendations seem excessive



tag 423950 + pending
thanks

Hi,

Andrew Moise wrote:
>   Some of this seems a bit excessive -- the inclusion of htdig, all of
> KDE, and NFS components in particular is clearly not necessary.  I
> realize that I can simply pass --without-recommends to aptitude, but
> I'm accustomed to being able to install recommended packages without
> this sort of explosion, and it seems like a good property to have in
> package dependencies.
>   I had a look at the dependencies -- it seems that KDE gets pulled in
> because of openoffice.org-style-crystal, which recommends
> kde-icons-crystal, which recommends kdebase.  htdig comes in turn from
> KDE (via khelpcenter), and nfs-common is recommended directly by

Bah. That once was fixed in 2.2.0-3 with the Recommends at the -style-*
side lowered to Suggests:, I wonder how it came back....

Gr�gards,

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