Package: kdelibs4c2a Version: 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny3 Severity: normal The majority of KDE packages do not require libarts or the arts sound system. Depending on them is unnecessary for the kdelibs package; if a specific KDE program requires libarts, it should have a separate dependency. libarts1c2a also automatically starts artsd as a system daemon, which is inappropriate for a 'lib' package. Advise as to whether I should file that as a separate bug against libarts1c2a.
end result to user: install simple program (i.e kate), find artsd always running. this discourages users interested in control over their own boxes from using KDE packages. Thanks, William Hopkins -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages kdelibs4c2a depends on: ii kdelibs-data 4:3.5.10.dfsg.1-0lenny3 core shared data for all KDE appli ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libarts1c2a 1.5.9-2 aRts sound system core components ii libasound2 1.0.16-2 ALSA library ii libaspell15 0.60.6-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libavahi-client 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi client library ii libavahi-common 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi common library ii libavahi-qt3-1 0.6.23-3lenny1 Avahi Qt 3 integration library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcups2 1.3.8-1+lenny8 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - ii libfam0 2.7.0-13.3 Client library to control the FAM ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2~bpo50+1 generic font configuration library ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn11 1.8+20080606-1 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libilmbase6 1.0.1-2+nmu2 several utility libraries from ILM ii libjasper1 1.900.1-5.1 The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii liblua50 5.0.3-3 Main interpreter library for the L ii liblualib50 5.0.3-3 Extension library for the Lua 5.0 ii libopenexr6 1.6.1-3+lenny3 runtime files for the OpenEXR imag ii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5+b1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libtiff4 3.8.2-11.2 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.12-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny1 GNOME XML library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-2 XSLT processing library - runtime ii menu-xdg 0.3 freedesktop.org menu compliant win ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii x11-xserver-uti 7.3+5 X server utilities ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime kdelibs4c2a recommends no packages. Versions of packages kdelibs4c2a suggests: pn fam <none> (no description available) ii ghostscript 8.62.dfsg.1-3.2lenny1 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF pn perl-suid <none> (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101001143734.9063.45368.report...@slimer