Adding a tag to wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Tags

[Emmet Hikory]

Jordan Mantha wrote:
> Hmm. I wonder if this could be generalized more. With installing
> Recommends by default it seems like there's been more talk recently
> about looking at what dependencies are actually needed. I'm working on
> another example, matplotlib, which is a nice python scientific
> plotting library that requires 300+ packages (over 100MB download) to
> install from a clean Ubuntu chroot.
>
> Do you think generalization of the tag to something  like "heavy-deps"
> would hurt your efforts with Java?

    "heavy-deps" sounds independently interesting.  That said, it
won't help the specific Java transition so well, as most of them don't
have the easy "test with headless" case to resolve the problem, and
need deeper investigation.  In the interest of getting the easy stuff
done quick for maxium user impact, I think the two proposed tags may
be interesting to view separately.  For those tagging who aren't sure
if something is a Java program, "heavy-deps" seems easier, and maybe
that could be one of the sources for those adding the "java-headless"
tag (which becomes a canned-search for Java packagers to clean and
trim).

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Emmet HIKORY