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 -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi | http://raju.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Blog
