[Pkg-hpijs-devel] Bug#664172: hplip: please clean the mess in the deb with the dependencies

[Ubuntu6226]

Package: hplip
Version: last one, squeeze
Severity: normal


Hello, 

apt-get install hplip is definitely not needing all this mess. 

# apt-get install hplip
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  avahi-daemon bc bind9-host consolekit cups cups-client cups-common cups-driver-gutenprint cups-ppdc defoma fancontrol fontconfig-config foomatic-db
  foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters foomatic-filters-ppds geoip-database ghostscript ghostscript-cups gsfonts hpijs hplip-cups hplip-data libavahi-core7 libbind9-60
  libcap2 libck-connector0 libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libdaemon0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdns69 libeggdbus-1-0 libffi5
  libfont-freetype-perl libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libgeoip1 libgs8 libgutenprint2 libhpmud0 libijs-0.35 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62 libjasper1
  libjbig2dec0 liblcms1 liblwres60 libnss-mdns libopenjpeg2 libpam-ck-connector libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libpoppler5
  libsane-hpaio libsensors4 libslp1 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libxfont1 lm-sensors min12xxw pnm2ppa policykit-1 poppler-utils python-central python-dbus python-gobject
  python-imaging python-pexpect ttf-dejavu-core ttf-freefont x-ttcidfont-conf x11-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils
Suggested packages:
  avahi-autoipd cups-bsd xpdf-korean xpdf-japanese xpdf-chinese-traditional xpdf-chinese-simplified cups-pdf smbclient kdeprint gtklp cups-pt xpp gutenprint-doc
  gutenprint-locales defoma-doc psfontmgr dfontmgr foo2zjs splix m2300w pxljr openprinting-ppds openprinting-ppds-extra cjet foomatic-db-gutenprint hpijs-ppds
  hplip-doc hplip-gui python-notify geoip-bin libjasper-runtime liblcms-utils slpd openslp-doc snmp-mibs-downloader sensord read-edid i2c-tools magicfilter apsfilter
  python-dbus-doc python-dbus-dbg python-gobject-dbg python-imaging-doc python-imaging-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  avahi-daemon bc bind9-host consolekit cups cups-client cups-common cups-driver-gutenprint cups-ppdc defoma fancontrol fontconfig-config foomatic-db
  foomatic-db-engine foomatic-filters foomatic-filters-ppds geoip-database ghostscript ghostscript-cups gsfonts hpijs hplip hplip-cups hplip-data libavahi-core7
  libbind9-60 libcap2 libck-connector0 libcups2 libcupscgi1 libcupsdriver1 libcupsimage2 libcupsmime1 libcupsppdc1 libdaemon0 libdbus-glib-1-2 libdns69 libeggdbus-1-0
  libffi5 libfont-freetype-perl libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libfreetype6 libgeoip1 libgs8 libgutenprint2 libhpmud0 libijs-0.35 libisc62 libisccc60 libisccfg62
  libjasper1 libjbig2dec0 liblcms1 liblwres60 libnss-mdns libopenjpeg2 libpam-ck-connector libpaper-utils libpaper1 libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0
  libpoppler5 libsane-hpaio libsensors4 libslp1 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libxfont1 lm-sensors min12xxw pnm2ppa policykit-1 poppler-utils python-central python-dbus
  python-gobject python-imaging python-pexpect ttf-dejavu-core ttf-freefont x-ttcidfont-conf x11-common xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils
0 upgraded, 85 newly installed, 0 to remove and 30 not upgraded.
Need to get 48.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 147 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

Ghostscript not needed, x11 never, and what about servers that simply have :
  apt-get install sane-utils 

(no X11 and all other mess)

Please add more people making these debs, or make a hplip-simple  with a limited number of dep. 

Thanks for linux
Sinceryl


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash