Dependencies of the Damned!

[Carl Fink <carl@fink.to>]

I'm trying to install the newest avidemux (2.0.20) on my Testing system. 
Since Christian Marillat hasn't built a .deb of it, I have to build it.

Okay, download the tar file, unarchive, run 

	"./configure".

It wants libgtk2-dev.

Fair enough.  

	apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev

Can't be installed because it depends on libpango1.0-dev, which isn't going
to be installed. I wonder why not, so I 

	apt-get install libpango1.0-dev

Can't be installed because it depends on libxft-dev, which isn't going to be
installed.  Okay,

	apt-get install libxft-dev

Can't be installed because it depends on libxrender-dev, which isn't going
to be installed.  Fine,

	apt-get install libxrender-dev

Can't be installed because it depends on libxrender1.1, which isn't going to
be installed.  Continuing out of sheer stubbornness:

	apt-get install libxrender1.1

Hurrah!  This one *will* be installed.  Of course, in order to do so apt-get
has to remove:

           abiword alsamixergui avifile-divx-plugin avifile-mad-plugin
           avifile-mjpeg-plugin avifile-player avifile-win32-plugin
           avifile-xvid-plugin flashplayer-mozilla gconf2 gimageview glabels
           gpaint gxine htmldoc icewm kate kcontrol kdebase-kio-plugins
           kdelibs-bin kdelibs4 kedit kfind kghostview khelpcenter kmail
           konq-speaker konqueror konsole kpaint krusader kview lesstif1
           lesstif2 libarts1 libavifile-0.7c102 libbonoboui2-0
           libbonoboui2-common libeel2-2 libeel2-data libfltk1.1c102
           libgail-common libgail17 libgconf2-4 libglade2-0
           libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0
           libgnomedb2-3 libgnomedb2-common libgnomeprint2.2-0
           libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeui-0
           libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common
           libgtkglext1 libgucharmap3 libkdenetwork2 libkonq4 libpango1.0-0
           libpango1.0-common libqt3c102-mt librsvg2-2 libxcursor1 libxft2
           libxrender1 mozilla-browser mozilla-firebird mozilla-psm snd
           snd-gtk xmaddressbook xpdf xpdf-reader

This just doesn't look optimal.

I have never delved into the internals of the dpgk format or apt-get's
operations -- I never needed to.  Can anyone explain to me what's up with
the dependencies here? 
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Carl Fink             carl@fink.to
Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading
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