asciidoc does not *depend on* texlive

Asked by Tong Sun

Hi,

I understand that under certain circumstances, asciidoc needs texlive. But I don't think therefore it is a "depends" relationship, because I've been using asciidoc for more than 5 years, and I don't remember I ever need texlive for asciidoc.

Currently, in order for me to use asciidoc, I have to pull in 456 MB + 759 MB = 1.2 GB of extra things that I most probably never use. To me, this is just absurd.

Thanks

From vanilla Precise:

$ apt-get install asciidoc
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dblatex docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-utils docbook-xml docbook-xsl gettext
  intltool-debian jadetex lacheck latex-beamer latex-xcolor libgettextpo0
  libmail-sendmail-perl libosp5 libostyle1c2 libsgmls-perl libsp1c2
  libsys-hostname-long-perl libunistring0 libxml2-utils lmodern luatex lynx
  lynx-cur openjade pgf po-debconf preview-latex-style prosper ps2eps
  sgml-data sgmlspl sp tex-common texlive texlive-base texlive-bibtex-extra
  texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-extra-utils
  texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
  texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
  texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
  texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-math-extra
  texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc
  tipa xmlto xsltproc
Suggested packages:
  vim-addon-manager source-highlight graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat
  imagemagick latex-cjk-all opensp texlive-lang-cyrillic texlive-xetex
  transfig psgml docbook-defguide docbook-dsssl-doc docbook-xsl-doc-html
  docbook-xsl-doc-pdf docbook-xsl-doc-text docbook-xsl-doc libsaxon-java
  libxalan2-java libxslthl-java docbook-xsl-saxon fop xalan dbtoepub
  gettext-doc auctex sgmls-doc libmail-box-perl perlsgml doc-html-w3 debhelper
  texlive-doc-en perl-tk dvidvi fragmaster latexmk purifyeps xindy psutils
  t1utils texpower dot2tex xmltex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  asciidoc dblatex docbook docbook-dsssl docbook-utils docbook-xml docbook-xsl
  gettext intltool-debian jadetex lacheck latex-beamer latex-xcolor
  libgettextpo0 libmail-sendmail-perl libosp5 libostyle1c2 libsgmls-perl
  libsp1c2 libsys-hostname-long-perl libunistring0 libxml2-utils lmodern
  luatex lynx lynx-cur openjade pgf po-debconf preview-latex-style prosper
  ps2eps sgml-data sgmlspl sp tex-common texlive texlive-base
  texlive-bibtex-extra texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base
  texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended
  texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base
  texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc
  texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex
  texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks
  texlive-pstricks-doc tipa xmlto xsltproc
0 upgraded, 62 newly installed, 0 to remove and 301 not upgraded.
Need to get 456 MB of archives.
After this operation, 759 MB of additional disk space will be used.

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said :
#1

texlive is not defined as dependency for asciidoc, asciidoc recommends dblatex which in turn depends on textlive

Have you tried the command

apt-get install asciidoc --no-install-recommends

By the way, the message
"Need to get 456 MB of archives.
After this operation, 759 MB of additional disk space will be used."
tells that you 'only' have to download 465 MB data, and these data will be unpacked to consume 759 MB disk space. Adding these numbers dows not make sense.

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Tong Sun (suntong001) said :
#2

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.