On Nov 19, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> b.bum wrote:
>
>> The list of dependencies for svn is huge -- is this really necessary?
>> The following package will be installed or updated:
>> svn-client-ssl
>> The following 41 additional packages will be installed:
>> apache2-ssl apache2-ssl-common apache2-ssl-dev apache2-ssl-mpm-worker
>> apr-ssl apr-ssl-shlibs cyrus-sasl2-dev cyrus-sasl2-shlibs db4
>> db4-shlibs
>> db41-ssl db41-ssl-shlibs dlcompat-dev dlcompat-shlibs gdbm3
>> gdbm3-shlibs
>> guile guile-dev guile-shlibs libtool14 libtool14-shlibs neon24-ssl
>> neon24-ssl-shlibs openldap-ssl openldap-ssl-dev openldap-ssl-shlibs
>> openssl097-dev openssl097-shlibs pkgconfig python-nox python23-nox
>> python23-nox-shlibs python23-socket-nox ruby ruby-dev ruby18
>> ruby18-dev
>> ruby18-shlibs svn-ssl-shlibs swig texinfo
>
> If I had to guess, I'd say that about 1/3 of those are from swig.
> Perhaps there should be a separate package for the Subversion
> libraries that depend on swig, so people don't need to pull in half
> the scripting languages in the world if they just want a subversion
> client.
It also appears that the client is pulling in all of apache? That
seems like overkill, too.
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