Comment 13 for bug 52711

What shocks me is how non user friendly all this is. Just ridiculous there is even an argument over this.

For any other package. You install all the dependencies so that package is "fully functional". NOT...oh it does something, but you need to install this other thing ... but oh you had no idea you where going to need this since nothing really told you (sorry we do not all read a debs recommended list .. why because the functionality in the package should work... synaptic doesn't pop up a recommended list before installing something).

There are actually cases where this becomes a problem. As some use workstations that they do not have access to install things. So if they tell the admin to install git-core and they need to pull an http tree, it going then another hassle to install curl too. But this is just one case. What about automated scripts and such...where honestly if git-clone is there it should work .. right?

Most the git trees I push and pull from are http which is why I hit this issue.