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Posted by prox, from Charlotte, on April 11, 2008 at 10:13 local (server) time

It looks like libmagick10, a dependency of the imagemagick package, is now linked against libdjvulibre21, which pulls in a ton of packages not appropriate for a server:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  app-install-data dbus dbus-x11 djview4 djvulibre-plugin eject esound-clients
  gconf2 gconf2-common gksu gnome-keyring gnome-mount hal hal-info
  iceape-browser iceape-gnome-support libaudio2 libaudiofile0 libavahi-client3
  libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0
  libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcairo-perl
  libdbus-1-3 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdirectfb-extra
  libdjvulibre21 libeel2-2.20 libeel2-data libenchant1c2a libesd0
  libgail-common libgail18 libgconf2-4 libgksu2-0 libglade2-0 libglib-perl
  libgnome-keyring0 libgnome-menu2 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-canvas-perl
  libgnome2-common libgnome2-perl libgnome2-vfs-perl libgnomecanvas2-0
  libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common
  libgnomevfs2-extra libgtk2-perl libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common libhal-storage1
  libhal1 libhunspell-1.1-0 libidl0 libilmbase6 libmng1 libmysqlclient15off
  libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1 libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libopenexr6
  liborbit2 libpam-gnome-keyring libqt4-core libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support
  libqt4-sql libscrollkeeper0 libsexy2 libsmbclient libsmbios-bin libsmbios1
  libsmbiosxml1 libsplashy1 libsqlite0 libstartup-notification0 libts-0.0-0
  libvte-common libvte9 libwnck-common libwnck22 libx86-1 libxres1
  mozilla-browser mysql-common notification-daemon pm-utils powermgmt-base
  qt4-qtconfig radeontool scrollkeeper synaptic uswsusp vbetool
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libmagick10
1 upgraded, 103 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 54.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 154MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Seriously, this should have been thought through a little better.  Lots of folks use ImageMagick as a backend for photo gallery and other scripts.  Servers don't need any gnome-* crap, eject, dbus, or any of the other desktop trash.

I'm waiting for a libmagick10-nodjvu package, or similar.  So yeah, Debian testing users, beware.

Update: Just add "APT::Install-Recommends "false";" to /etc/apt/apt.conf, and it won't install recommends.

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