Re: is this sensible?

[François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr>]

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Le 25/06/2014 14:11, Floris a écrit :
> Op Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:06:25 +0200 schreef Floris
> <jkfloris@dds.nl>:
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>> Op Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:51:17 +0200 schreef François Patte 
>> <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr>:
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>>> Le 25/06/2014 11:01, Weaver a écrit :
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>>>> On Wed, June 25, 2014 1:57 am, François Patte wrote:
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>>>>> Le 25/06/2014 10:49, Lisi Reisz a écrit :
>>>>>> On Wednesday 25 June 2014 09:32:22 François Patte wrote:
>>>>>>> I wanted to update my gthumb package (wich became ugly
>>>>>>> for an unknown reason....). So I asked:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> apt-get install gthumb
>>>> 
>>>> Before installing anything, always update. This is what the 
>>>> machine is actually trying to do.
>>>> 
>>>> Update, so that everything is current, then install the
>>>> required package immediately, and you won't have that
>>>> trouble. Cheers!
>>> 
>>> The problem is: why do I have to install, for instance,
>>> gcc-4.9-base gcc-4.9-base:i386  (I don't want to compile
>>> anything...)
>>> 
>>> why do I have to install these xserver:
>>> 
>>> xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-evdev
>>> xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
>>> xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom
>>> xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-ati 
>>> xserver-xorg-video-cirrus xserver-xorg-video-fbdev 
>>> xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-mach64
>>> xserver-xorg-video-mga xserver-xorg-video-modesetting
>>> xserver-xorg-video-neomagic xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>>> xserver-xorg-video-nvidia xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
>>> xserver-xorg-video-r128 xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>>> xserver-xorg-video-savage xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion
>>> xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
>>> xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-vesa 
>>> xserver-xorg-video-vmware
>>> 
>>> I have an nvidia graphic card, so, if needed "nouveau" but I
>>> use the proprietary driver...
>>> 
>>> Why should I install systemd?
>>> 
>>> etc. etc.
>>> 
>>> I just wanted to work with gthumb, but it was broken by a
>>> preceeding update....
>>> 
>>> I waste more time to recover a system than to work....
>>> 
>> 
>> try: #apt-get install --no-install-recommends gthumb
>> 
>> But I think there is a xserver-xorg-input-all and 
>> xserver-xorg-video-all dependency somewhere. Installing
>> "xserver-xorg-input-evdev" and "xserver-xorg-video-nvidia" should
>> be enough to satisfy all packages
>> 
>> See: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gthumb for a list of
>> dependencies
> 
> for example:
> 
> gthumb needs libc6 needs libgcc1 needs gcc-4.7-base

This what is writen as dependencies in packages... OK but I am
wondering why gthumb (and its dependencies) needs to install systemd


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