Asterisk dependencies on Debian Lenny or Squeeze ??

categories:

• Asterisk
• Debian/Ubuntu

Can someone explain why build-essential is a dependency of Asterisk under Lenny or Squeeze ?

142 MB.. seriously ? Meanwhile Askozia fits on 30 MB, and that includes the OS.

<code># apt-get install asterisk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  asterisk-config asterisk-sounds-main binutils build-essential bzip2 ca-certificates cpp cpp-4.3 debhelper dpkg-dev file g++ g++-4.3 gcc gcc-4.3 gettext gettext-base
  html2text intltool-debian libasound2 libc-client2007b libc6-dev libcap2 libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcompress-zlib-perl libcurl3 libdigest-hmac-perl libdigest-sha1-perl
  libfile-remove-perl libgmp3c2 libgomp1 libgsm1 libidn11 libiksemel3 libio-compress-base-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl libio-stringy-perl libldap-2.4-2 libltdl3
  libmagic1 libmail-box-perl libmail-sendmail-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-types-perl libmpfr1ldbl libobject-realize-later-perl libogg0 libpci3 libperl5.10 libpq5
  libpri1.0 libradiusclient-ng2 libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libspeex1 libspeexdsp1 libsqlite0 libssh2-1 libstdc++6-4.3-dev libsys-hostname-long-perl libsysfs2
  libtimedate-perl libtonezone1 liburi-perl libuser-identity-perl libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvpb0 linux-libc-dev make mlock module-assistant odbcinst1debian1 openssl
  patch perl perl-modules po-debconf ucf unixodbc vpb-driver-source
Suggested packages:
  ekiga ohphone twinkle kphone asterisk-doc asterisk-dev asterisk-h323 binutils-doc bzip2-doc cpp-doc gcc-4.3-locales dh-make debian-keyring g++-multilib g++-4.3-multilib
  gcc-4.3-doc libstdc++6-4.3-dbg gcc-multilib manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-4.3-multilib libmudflap0-4.3-dev libgcc1-dbg
  libgomp1-dbg libmudflap0-dbg cvs gettext-doc libasound2-plugins uw-mailutils glibc-doc libmime-tools-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhtml-format-perl spamassassin
  libmail-imapclient-perl lm-sensors speex libstdc++6-4.3-doc libwww-perl vpb-utils make-doc diff-doc perl-doc libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl
  libmyodbc odbc-postgresql libct1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  asterisk asterisk-config asterisk-sounds-main binutils build-essential bzip2 ca-certificates cpp cpp-4.3 debhelper dpkg-dev file g++ g++-4.3 gcc gcc-4.3 gettext
  gettext-base html2text intltool-debian libasound2 libc-client2007b libc6-dev libcap2 libcompress-raw-zlib-perl libcompress-zlib-perl libcurl3 libdigest-hmac-perl
  libdigest-sha1-perl libfile-remove-perl libgmp3c2 libgomp1 libgsm1 libidn11 libiksemel3 libio-compress-base-perl libio-compress-zlib-perl libio-stringy-perl
  libldap-2.4-2 libltdl3 libmagic1 libmail-box-perl libmail-sendmail-perl libmailtools-perl libmime-types-perl libmpfr1ldbl libobject-realize-later-perl libogg0 libpci3
  libperl5.10 libpq5 libpri1.0 libradiusclient-ng2 libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libspeex1 libspeexdsp1 libsqlite0 libssh2-1 libstdc++6-4.3-dev
  libsys-hostname-long-perl libsysfs2 libtimedate-perl libtonezone1 liburi-perl libuser-identity-perl libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvpb0 linux-libc-dev make mlock
  module-assistant odbcinst1debian1 openssl patch perl perl-modules po-debconf ucf unixodbc vpb-driver-source
0 upgraded, 83 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 47.3MB of archives.
After this operation, 142MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? </code>

EDIT Janv. 30 :

Thanks to Kurt for the tip in the comments. It completely went unnoticed to me, but Debian Lenny indeed installs “recommends” packages :

To avoid the bloat caused by this new policy, edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and add : APT::Install-Recommends "0";

The result is clear :

<code># apt-get install asterisk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  asterisk-config asterisk-sounds-main ca-certificates libasound2
  libc-client2007b libcap2 libcurl3 libgsm1 libidn11 libiksemel3 libldap-2.4-2
  libltdl3 libogg0 libpci3 libperl5.10 libpq5 libpri1.0 libradiusclient-ng2
  libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libspeex1 libspeexdsp1 libsqlite0
  libssh2-1 libsysfs2 libtonezone1 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvpb0 mlock
  odbcinst1debian1 openssl ucf unixodbc
Suggested packages:
  ekiga ohphone twinkle kphone asterisk-doc asterisk-dev asterisk-h323
  libasound2-plugins uw-mailutils lm-sensors speex vpb-utils libmyodbc
  odbc-postgresql libct1
Recommended packages:
  vpb-driver-source
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  asterisk asterisk-config asterisk-sounds-main ca-certificates libasound2
  libc-client2007b libcap2 libcurl3 libgsm1 libidn11 libiksemel3 libldap-2.4-2
  libltdl3 libogg0 libpci3 libperl5.10 libpq5 libpri1.0 libradiusclient-ng2
  libsensors3 libsnmp-base libsnmp15 libspeex1 libspeexdsp1 libsqlite0
  libssh2-1 libsysfs2 libtonezone1 libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvpb0 mlock
  odbcinst1debian1 openssl ucf unixodbc
0 upgraded, 36 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.0MB of archives.
After this operation, 33.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?</code>