aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages

[Keith Christian <keith1christian@gmail.com>]

Running Debian Jessie on a non-critical system at home.  Wanted to use
xine-ui instead of vlc as a video player, since there appeared to be
some sort of conflict.

Ran aptitude -y purge vlc to do the obvious.  116 packages were
removed, most of the core of KDE.

Why were so many other packages dependent on vlc?  116 removals just
to get rid of one package is quite alot!

I have the complete aptitude purge log in a file on disk so the names
are readily available, but, there must be a more efficient way to
reinstall the 116 packages.

Is there a KDE meta-package that will install the majority of KDE that
was removed?


Keith