Fwd: postgresql-10-postgis-2.4 dependencies

[Bob Jolliffe]

Hi

I sent this mail to postgres package maintainers list yesterday, still
waiting for a reply.

Has anyone else seen something similar installing postgis package on
postgres 10/ubuntu 16.04? This is what I see when trying to install
(644MB of upgrades!):

root@bob:~# apt install postgresql-10-postgis-2.4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
fontconfig fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core gcc-5-base
ghostscript gsfonts i965-va-driver libaacs0 libaec0
libarmadillo6 libarpack2 libasound2 libasound2-data libass5
libasyncns0 libaudio2 libavahi-client3
libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavc1394-0
libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavdevice-ffmpeg56 libavfilter-ffmpeg5
libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavresample-ffmpeg2 libavutil-ffmpeg54
libbdplus0 libblas-common libblas3 libbluray1
libboost-serialization1.58.0 libboost-system1.58.0
libboost-thread1.58.0 libbs2b0 libcaca0 libcairo2
libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcdio13 libcgal11v5 libcoin80v5
libcroco3 libcrystalhd3 libcups2
libcupsfilters1 libcupsimage2 libdap17v5 libdapclient6v5 libdatrie1
libdc1394-22 libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1
libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libepsilon1 libfaad2 libflac8
libflite1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6 libfreexl1
libgdal1i libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgeos-3.5.0
libgeos-c1v5 libgfortran3 libgif7
libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libgme0 libgomp1
libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 libgraphite2-3 libgs9
libgs9-common libgsm1 libharfbuzz0b libhdf4-0-alt libhdf5-10 libice6
libiec61883-0 libijs-0.35 libiso9660-8
libjack-jackd2-0 libjasper1 libjbig0 libjbig2dec0 libjpeg-turbo8
libjpeg8 libkmlbase1 libkmldom1 libkmlengine1
liblapack3 liblcms2-2 libldb1 libllvm4.0 libltdl7 liblwgeom-2.4-0
libmad0 libminizip1 libmng2 libmodplug1
libmp3lame0 libmpcdec6 libmysqlclient20 libnetcdf11 libodbc1
libogdi3.2 libogg0 libopenal-data libopenal1
libopencv-core2.4v5 libopencv-imgproc2.4v5 libopenjp2-7 libopenjpeg5
libopenscenegraph100v5 libopenthreads20
libopus0 liborc-0.4-0 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0
libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpaper-utils libpaper1
libpciaccess0 libpixman-1-0 libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler58
libpostproc-ffmpeg53 libproj9 libprotobuf-c1
libpulse0 libpython-stdlib libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal
libpython2.7-stdlib libqt4-dbus libqt4-declarative
libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-sql
libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4
libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 libquadmath0 libraw1394-11 librsvg2-2
librsvg2-common libsamplerate0 libschroedinger-1.0-0
libsdl1.2debian libsfcgal1 libshine3 libsm6 libsmbclient
libsnappy1v5 libsndfile1 libsodium18 libsoxr0
libspatialite7 libspeex1 libssh-gcrypt-4 libstdc++6 libsuperlu4
libswresample-ffmpeg1 libswscale-ffmpeg3 libsz2
libtalloc2 libtbb2 libtdb1 libtevent0 libthai-data libthai0
libtheora0 libtiff5 libtwolame0 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
liburiparser1 libv4l-0 libv4lconvert0 libva1 libvcdinfo0 libvdpau1
libvorbis0a libvorbisenc2 libvpx3
libwavpack1 libwbclient0 libwebp5 libwmf0.2-7 libx11-xcb1
libx264-148 libx265-79 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0
libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0
libxcb-sync1 libxcb-xfixes0 libxdamage1
libxerces-c3.1 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxine2 libxine2-bin libxine2-doc
libxine2-ffmpeg libxine2-misc-plugins
libxine2-plugins libxrender1 libxshmfence1 libxt6 libxv1
libxvidcore4 libxxf86vm1 libzmq5 libzvbi-common
libzvbi0 mesa-vdpau-drivers mysql-common odbcinst odbcinst1debian2
poppler-data
postgresql-10-postgis-2.4-scripts proj-bin proj-data python
python-minimal python-talloc python2.7
python2.7-minimal qdbus qt-at-spi qtchooser qtcore4-l10n samba-libs
va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all
vdpau-va-driver x11-common



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bob Jolliffe <bobjo...@gmail.com>
Date: 21 November 2017 at 12:18
Subject: postgresql-10-postgis-2.4 dependencies
To: pgsql-pk...@lists.postgresql.org


Hi

I am in the process of evaluating postgresql 10 on an ubuntu 16.04
server. One of the requirements is to install postgis.

However the dependencies for postgresql-10-postgis-2.4 seem to
explode - everything from mysql-common, ffmpeg drivers, qt4, libx11
etc. This is not practical (or desirable) on my server.

Is there any suggestion for how the postgis package might be installed
without all of this seemingly unnecessary stuff? Maybe I am doing
something wrong.

Regards
Bob