Re: Remove noatun also removes kde?

On Wednesday 2008 December 31 10:16:10 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote:
pie-machine:~# aptitude remove noatun
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
noatun-plugins: Depends: noatun (>= 4:3.5.9) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
kde
kdeaddons
noatun-plugins

Score is -463

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

Completely normal. kde Depends on kdeaddons; kdeaddons Depends on
noatun-plugins; noatun-plugins Depends on noatun. Of course, the kde package
is not much (if any) more than a "meta-package"; it only exists to pull in
other dependencies. The kdeaddons package is similar.

I run KDE and don't have either installed, instead I install the parts of KDE
I want without the stuff I consider "cruft": kontact, kget, kwalletmanager,
kmail, akregator, konqueror, knoqueror-nsplugins, konsole, *kfile*, *kio*,
kgpg, klipper, kicker, kompare, kdiff3, kcachegrind, kcalc, kmahjongg,
kshisen. Their dependencies, plus those of the KDE applications I use that
aren't part of KDE: konversation, amarok, karbon, krita (actually, those last
two might be part of KDE...) pull in the Depends/Recommends/Suggests they
need and I have a system that just works. There's probably a few packages I
left out, but that's most of them. Sometimes I'll even go whole-hog and pull
in kdevelop and quanta, but I use (g)vim for most of that.

For people trying KDE for the first time or the first time in a long time, I
do recommend installing the kde package -- it'll pull in everything the KDE
project thinks should be part of KDE and give you a "full" experience. If
you find KDE suits you, I recommend only installing the applications you use.
It saves download time and disk space, can save memory footprint, and might
even make upgrading easier.
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