Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
However, little detail, the debian package of inkscape doesn't _need_ this packages, they are _only_ recommended
Recommended packages: libwmf-bin pstoedit sketch
Maybe it would be better clarified the dependencies of the extensions, that are a very important part of inkscape.
The reason that we did that is to make it easier for people to install Inkscpae. Distributions like Ubuntu aren't really interested in having Skencil as part of their supported packages, but are willing to put Inkscape in because it's not a 'dependency'. Our goal in the future is to have separate packages for Linux (this looks like it's impossible for Windows/Mac) so that you can install 'inkscape' and 'inkscape-extension-pstoedit' the later of which would have pstoedit as a required dependency.
To date, we don't really have enough extensions to make this distinction worth while.
--Ted