[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#717695: xmonad recommends some seriously huge packages

[David Starner]

Package: xmonad
Version: 0.11-5
Severity: wishlist

sudo apt-get install xmonad
...
Need to get 78.4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 514 MB of additional disk space will be used.

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install xmonad
...
Need to get 612 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,729 kB of additional disk space will be used.

That's problematic. The default mode for the package shouldn't be 100
times the space of the basic install. If necessary, there should be an
xmonad-base or xmonad-minimal so people installing xmonad at
high-level ways that always load recommendations can try xmonad
without loading 500 MB of stuff.

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