Re: aptitude purge vlc removes approximately 116 other KDE packages
On Thursday 25 February 2016 14:12:16 Felix Miata wrote:
> Keith Christian composed on 2016-02-25 06:45 (UTC-0700):
> > 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!
>
> My guess is that the trigger was
>
> phonon-backend-vlc
>
> that various KDE components depend on, notifications in particular.
>
> > 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?
>
> Most of it will probably be picked up via one or a few:
>
> kde-standard
>
> may be enough. Others that should help if that's not good enough, or get
> the ball rolling if you don't wish to risk overshoot:
>
> kde-workspace
> kde-runtime
> kde-baseapps
> kde-plasma-desktop
>
> If you do want the whole kitchen sink:
>
> kde-full
But that would surely bring vlc back? Do you know the song "There's a hole in
my bucket, dear Eliza"?
Lisi
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