You're actually right - totem now explicitly depends on totem-plugins (it was different in the previous version...). This does not seem to me like a good idea, a set of "recommended plugins" (as in the description) should be a "recommends" not a "depends"... I therefore mark this bug as confirmed (although it's a minor problem, see next comment), sorry for closing it.
Regarding your initial problem: The totem package is only a dummy package for installing either totem-gstreamer or totem-xine. If you remove totem and totem-plugins while keeping totem-gstreamer installed, totem should be running fine... ** Changed in: totem (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- totem depends on libtrackerclient (even when tracker is not installed) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to totem in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs