Extraneous Dependencies (may be bug in more than one package)

[Drew N]

When installing pfstmo (in my case using Synaptic, but it shouldn't matter which front-end I use), it reports that I MUST install the following as well:
aglfn (Adobe Glyph List)
gnuplot-x11 (X11 front-end to GNUPlot)
libatlas3-base (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software)
libcxsparse3.1.2 (concise sparse matrix library)
libfftw3-3 (Library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms)
libfftw3-long3 (Library for computing Fast Fourier Transforms)
libgl2ps0 (Lib providing high quality vector output for OpenGL application)
libglpk36 (GNU Linear Programming Kit)
libgraphicsmagic++3 (format-independent image processing)
libintl-perl (Perl internationalization)
libpfs-1.2-0 (C++ library to read and write pfs files)
libplot2c2 (GNU plotutils libraries)
libpstoedit0c2a (PostScript to editable vector graphics library, runtimes)
libqhull6 (calculate convex hulls and related structures)
libqrupdate1 (Fast updates of QR and Cholesky decompositions)
libxml-libxml-perl (Perl interface to the GNOME libxml2 library)
octave* (GNU Octave language for numerical computations), and libraries, including bindings to pfstools
pfsglview (command line HDR manipulation programs)
pfstools (command line HDR manipulation programs)
pstoedit(PostScript and PDF files to editable vector graphics converter)
texinfo (the "info" CLI command)

Given that the only members of this list of supposed "dependencies" that I even remotely want are pfstools & pfsglview, there is a problem here. I am not attempting to install a suite of tools for scholarly mathematical analysis. I merely want to play with HDR image software. While I'm using 14.04 (which I believe is the current "LTS"), I presume this problem exists for all Ubuntu release levels. This kind of dependency hell is a real turn-off for end users, particularly if they are Windows users.