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
