<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div><div>(this is not a complain, just an inquiry)<br></div><div><br></div>While installing Racket on a small server, I wanted to avoid installing gui and doc related libraries.<br>
</div><div>The minimal install was great!<br></div><div><br>Then I wanted to install a package of my own (the aptly named "bazaar"), which requires "images" and other gui libs (which I actually would not use on the server), among other things, but no doc<br>
</div><br></div>But the "images" package draws racket-doc and gui-doc dependencies, which in turn draws practically all of Racket. And it then takes a much longer time for `raco setup` to do its job that I had hoped for.<br>
</div><div><br>Certainly, this can be resolved by splitting "images" and "bazaar" into lib, gui and docs packages, but I foresee another problem:<br></div><div>It's difficult to enforce such a split for third-party libraries, as it puts the burden on the user.<br>
</div><div>And the first package like that to be installed will again draw all of Racket dependencies.<br><br></div><div>This is probably not a trivial matter, but what can be done about this?<br><br></div>My dream would be that gui and doc dependencies are never triggered, without preventing the packages I actually use to be downloaded, but I don't know how this could actually be ensured without a good amount of magic.<br>
<br></div>Merely preventing downloads does not sound like a good option though.<br><br></div>I bet you've already discussed this far and wide, so are there any plans?<br><div><div><br>Laurent<br></div></div></div>