@angular/http not marked as peer dependency

Bug, feature request, or proposal:

Bug

What is the current behavior?

If @angular/http is installed but HttpModule not loaded in AppModule, compilation is OK and icons work well (the font is loaded locally so no server requests are needed).

But if @angular/http is uninstalled, Angular CLI compilation fails (and so I can’t even run my app) :

ERROR in/node_modules/@angular/material/typings/icon/icon-registry.d.ts (10,22): Cannot find module '@angular/http'.

ERROR in ./~/@angular/material/@angular/material.es5.js
Module not found: Error: Can't resolve '@angular/http' in '/node_modules/@angular/material/@angular'
 @ ./~/@angular/material/@angular/material.es5.js 20:0-37
 @ ./src/app/core/core.module.ts
 @ ./src/app/app.module.ts
 @ ./src/main.ts
 @ multi webpack-dev-server/client?http://localhost:4200 ./src/main.ts

What is the use-case or motivation for changing an existing behavior?

Angular 4.3 introduced new HttpClient API, meaning we may not need anymore the previous Http API. And in this case, we should be able to not install @angular/http in the project, to have smaller bundles sizes.

What is the expected behavior?

Material icons seems to do hard imports of @angular/http even if it doesn’t need them. They should be remove when not necessary.

Which versions of Angular, Material, OS, TypeScript, browsers are affected?

@angular/cli 1.2.1 @angular/core 4.3.0 @angular/material beta.8

[aldo-roman]

Any clue on this issue? We are running on the same problem 28 days later. Thanks guys!

PS: this is blocking issue given we cannot compile anymore. We had to install @angular/http and now have a larger bundle 😕

[jelbourn]

The real issue here is that @angular/http should be a peerDependency of Angular Material; the library needs to import symbols from @angular/http to even compile.

We are likely going to switch to the new http client eventually (@angular/common/http), so this will likely be resolved then.