On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:47:26PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Who reads a message who doesn't see the subject line???
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 09:15:22AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> it is not clear which version of Debian you are using. There's one. > # dpkg -l | egrep 'mpv|mplayer' > # apt install smplayer > ... 'apt autoremove' to remove them. > The following additional packages will be installed: > fonts-urw-base35 imagemagick-7-common libdjvulibre-text libdjvulibre21 > libffms2-4 libgs9 libgs9-common libijs-0.35 libjbig2dec0 libmagick++-7-5 > libmagickcore-7-9 libmagickwand-7-9 > libmujs1 libqt5xml5 libraqm0 libraw20 libsixel1 libwmf0.2-7 libzip4 mpv > poppler-data vapoursynth vapoursynth-ffms2 OK, there's the list of packages that you seem to consider "bloat". > Need to get 19.1 MB of archives. > After this operation, 71.4 MB of additional disk space will be used. This doesn't seem unreasonable to me, for a complete video/audio player in the current year. It's a hell of a lot smaller than, say, a web browser. Now, it's been so long since your original message that I forgot what you were specifically asking. So I went to the list archives to read up. Here's a piece of the original message: > Even though Install-Recommends is false, apt wants > to install mpv, imagemagick-common, and fonts-urw-base35. I think we've already covered mpv, right? unicorn:~$ apt-cache show smplayer | grep mpv Depends: mpv (>= 0.6.2) | mplayer, [...] Or, just read the description of the package you're installing: Description-en: Complete front-end for MPlayer and mpv smplayer is just a front-end for mpv (or mplayer), so obviously it's going to install mpv (or mplayer). Next, you complained about something you called "imagemagick-common" but which we can now see is actually imagemagick-7-common. It's a fair bet that this was brought in by one of the other packages with "magick" in its name, either libmagick++-7-5 or libmagickcore-7-9 or libmagickwand-7-9. Here's where it starts to get fun: unicorn:~$ apt-cache show libmagick++-7-5 | grep 7-common E: No packages found You're pulling in packages that are not part of Debian bullseye. Perhaps you're using that infamous "debian-multimedia" repository? Good luck with that. Finally, you asked about fonts-urw-base35. Let's see if this is even in Debian at all: unicorn:~$ apt-cache show fonts-urw-base35 | grep Version Version: 20200910-1 OK, good. It's actually on topic. It happens to be one that *I* have, so let's see why I have it, maybe. unicorn:~$ aptitude why fonts-urw-base35 i ghostscript Depends libgs9 (= 9.53.3~dfsg-7) i A libgs9 Depends libgs9-common (= 9.53.3~dfsg-7) i A libgs9-common Depends fonts-urw-base35 (>= 20200910) And as we saw in your apt output, you're bringing in libgs9 and libgs9-common. Thus, the fonts-urw-base35 package is brought in as well. Now you get to try to track down which package is bringing in libgs9. It's not mpv or smplayer (at least not directly): unicorn:~$ apt-cache show smplayer | grep libgs9 unicorn:~$ apt-cache show mpv | grep libgs9 unicorn:~$ So it must be one of the others in your list, some of which are not from Debian. Have fun tracking it down. Or, you could stop caring. It's a TINY amount of additional disk space, well within the realm of rationality for a video player with an additional front-end.
