Bug#526999: clive: support installation without depends on libterm-progressbar-perl?

[Toni Gundogdu]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Michael Prokop <mika at grml.org> wrote:
> Package: clive
> Version: 2.1.11-1
> Severity: wishlist
>
>
> Depends of clive:
>
> # apt-cache show clive | grep Depends
> Depends: perl, libconfig-tiny-perl (>= 2.12), libwww-curl-perl (>= 4.05), libhtml-parser-perl (>= 2.37), libterm-progressbar-perl (>= 2.09), libberkeleydb-perl (>= 0.34), liburi-perl (>= 1.37), libexpect-perl (>= 1.20), libterm-readkey-perl, perl (>= 5.10) | libdigest-sha-perl
>
> whereas libterm-progressbar-perl depends on:
>
> # apt-cache show libterm-progressbar-perl | grep Depends
> Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16), libclass-methodmaker-perl, libterm-readkey-perl
>
> ... now libclass-methodmaker-perl is a pretty huge package:
>
> # apt-cache show libclass-methodmaker-perl | grep Size
> Installed-Size: 22568
> Size: 498768
>
> Is there any chance that the progressbar of clive becomes optional
> and the dependeny on libterm-progressbar-perl could become a
> recommends/suggest?

Term::Progressbar (libterm-progressbar-perl) hasn't been a
prerequisite since 2.1.0.