lxc-templates: too many senseless dependencies

[Jens Elkner]

# apt install lxc-templates
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  busybox-static cloud-image-utils debootstrap dirmngr distro-info genisoimage
  gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server
  gpgconf gpgsm gpgv ibverbs-providers libaio1 libassuan0 libcurl3-gnutls
  libibverbs1 libiscsi7 libksba8 libnghttp2-14 libnl-3-200 libnl-route-3-200
  libnpth0 libnspr4 libnss3 libpsl5 librados2 librbd1 librtmp1 pinentry-curses
  publicsuffix qemu-block-extra qemu-utils sharutils uuid-runtime wget
Suggested packages:
  cloud-utils-euca mtools ubuntu-archive-keyring dbus-user-session
  pinentry-gnome3 tor shunit2 wodim cdrkit-doc parcimonie xloadimage scdaemon
  qemu-user-static pinentry-doc sharutils-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  busybox-static cloud-image-utils debootstrap dirmngr distro-info genisoimage
  gnupg gnupg-l10n gnupg-utils gpg gpg-agent gpg-wks-client gpg-wks-server
  gpgconf gpgsm ibverbs-providers libaio1 libassuan0 libcurl3-gnutls
  libibverbs1 libiscsi7 libksba8 libnghttp2-14 libnl-3-200 libnl-route-3-200
  libnpth0 libnspr4 libnss3 libpsl5 librados2 librbd1 librtmp1 lxc-templates
  pinentry-curses publicsuffix qemu-block-extra qemu-utils sharutils
  uuid-runtime wget
The following packages will be upgraded:
  gpgv
1 upgraded, 40 newly installed, 0 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 10.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 40.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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41 MB of totally useless bloat just to get some config alias text files is far too much!
Actually this package should not have any dependencies at all!

> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

apt-get install lxc-templates
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  bridge-utils cgroup-lite dnsmasq-base iptables libcap2 libdbus-1-3 libidn11 libip4tc2 libip6tc2 libiptc0 liblxc-common liblxc1 libmnl0 libnetfilter-conntrack3 libnfnetlink0 libnftnl11 libpopt0
  libxtables12 lxc-utils multiarch-support rsync
Suggested packages:
  ifupdown kmod btrfs-tools lvm2 lxctl openssh-client openssh-server
Recommended packages:
  dns-root-data nftables dbus lxcfs uidmap busybox-static cloud-image-utils | cloud-utils debootstrap | cdebootstrap openssl uuid-runtime libpam-cgfs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bridge-utils cgroup-lite dnsmasq-base iptables libcap2 libdbus-1-3 libidn11 libip4tc2 libip6tc2 libiptc0 liblxc-common liblxc1 libmnl0 libnetfilter-conntrack3 libnfnetlink0 libnftnl11 libpopt0
  libxtables12 lxc-templates lxc-utils multiarch-support rsync
0 upgraded, 22 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2449 kB/2686 kB of archives.
After this operation, 10.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Looks like really better in eoan...