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
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