On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there some reason removing the libjack-jackd2-0 package removes
> everything audio/video and the kitchen sink??
>
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   buzztrax cheese clementine cube2 espeak ffmpeg flare-engine flare-game
>   fluidsynth giada gir1.2-cheese-3.0 gmidimonitor gnome-video-effects
>   gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-good indicator-sound
>   libasound2-plugins libavdevice57 libcanberra-pulse libcheese-gtk25
>   libcheese8 libespeak1 libfarstream-0.2-5 libfluidsynth1 libjack-jackd2-0
>   libportaudio2 libpurple-bin libpurple0 librtmidi3 libsdl-mixer1.2
>   libsdl-mixer1.2-dev libsdl2-mixer-2.0-0 libsdl2-mixer-dev libxine2
>   libxine2-misc-plugins libxine2-plugins midisnoop milkytracker mpg123 osspd
>   osspd-pulseaudio petri-foo pidgin pidgin-libnotify projectm-pulseaudio
>   pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat qmidiarp qsynth redeclipse sauerbraten
>   sdlbasic sdlbrt seq24 showq soundconverter speech-dispatcher timidity
>   timidity-daemon widelands xine-ui xubuntu-core xubuntu-desktop yoshimi
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 64 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 924 MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> Damn, that is a LOT!
>

To recursively list all packages that are installed on a system and
are dependencies of a package, you can do

apt-rdepends --state-show=Installed --state-follow=Installed PKGNAME

Run the above command with PKGNAME as libjack-jackd2-0 and it should
give you an idea of why the package manager is trying to remove so
many packages.

hth
raju
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