0000608: installation via deb packages has unneeded dependencies

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000608	OpenFOAM	Bug	public	2012-08-01 01:17	2015-01-01 14:40

Reporter	~~user486~~	Assigned To	henry
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	N/A
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Platform	Linux	OS	Ubuntu	OS Version	10.04

Summary	0000608: installation via deb packages has unneeded dependencies
Description	When installing openfoam via the deb packages for Ubuntu 10.04, as per the instructions in http://www.openfoam.org/download/ubuntu.php, I notice that many probably unneeded packages are also being installed, such as Qt Designer, Qt4-dev, Qt4-doc, libncurses-dev. I doubt that any dev packages should be installed with the openfoam binaries, actually. Removing these dependencies (Build-Depends instead of Depends) would significantly reduce the download time for installation, and would make no difference for end users.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2012-08-01 01:17	~~user486~~	New Issue
2012-08-03 08:49	~~user4~~	Note Added: 0001548
2015-01-01 14:39	henry	Status	new => closed
2015-01-01 14:40	henry	Assigned To	=> henry
2015-01-01 14:40	henry	Resolution	open => no change required

~~user4~~ 2012-08-03 08:49 ~0001548	Unfortunately most of these get picked up through the ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} through the paraFoam reader module. Ideally this should be split into the openfoamparaview package but that would be harder to organise. Some of the dependencies are indeed building only but then OpenFOAM hopefully encourages people to code bits themselves ;-)