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[Stéphane Glondu <steph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Benjamin.M a écrit :
> I just tried to install grisbi and I am experiencing the same problem.
> It confuses me that this Bug is marked as fixed 0o

This is not really a bug. grisbi used to "recommend" latex-ucs and
tetex-extra, making it install with package managers' default settings.
It has been a suggestion since version 0.5.9-1, and the version shipped
with Karmic will no longer pull texlive when installing grisbi (with
default settings).

You can still install grisbi without all latex stuff anyway, even with
Jaunty. I am not aware of a way to do this with apt-get, but with
aptitude or synaptic user interfaces, you can un-select all tex stuff
and keep only grisbi before starting download. Or alternatively, you can
disable automatic installation of recommendations. This is something you
should do in general if you always want to have the minimum stuff
installed on your system.


Hope that helps,

-- 
Stéphane

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grisbi pulls in >300MB of optional dependencies
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Status in “grisbi” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: grisbi

Ubuntu intrepid (development branch) Release 8.10
grisbi 0.5.9-0ubuntu2 0
   Recommends: latex-ucs, tetex-extra

When installing grisbi I expected to download and install a few MB of packages. 
What happened instead is that apt asks for the installation of a full blown latex system with a 336MB download and close to 700MB on-disk.

The upstream documentation states that latex is optional, see
http://grisbi.tuxfamily.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=docs_en:installation.

I believe that the dependency "tetex-extra" should be downgraded from recommends to suggests.
Also the other recommends dependency "latex-ucs" doesn't exist in Intrepids repository. Should it be removed?