python-configshell depends on full tex suite through python-epydoc

[Sander Smeenk]

Package 'python-configshell' depends on 'python-epydoc' which pulls in the entire TeX suite, TCL, Tk and a lot of X libs on my
server when i try to install 'targetcli':

Paste: https://8n1.org/raw/8375/d26d
"Need to get 440 MB of archives. After this operation, 715 MB of additional disk space will be used."

I do not see why i should install ~715MB of TeX, TCL, Tk and X libs to be able to use the iSCSI LIO cli tools. Since it is python-configshell which depends on python-epydoc, which seems to be only for documentation purposes, i'm filing this bug on 'configshell'.

Could this be changed mayhaps?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ibanez (ibanez)]

There is a workaround:

That is what I did at the end I installed without recommends.

Edit the file /etc/apt/apt.conf file and add the following contents to it:

APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";

BR // Ibanez