On Saturday 18 December 2021 at 14:43:30, Didier Kryn wrote: > Aptitude why libpulse0 only lists xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin, but it > misses a lot, including indirectly xfce4.
Yes, this is in my opinion one of the shortcomings of "aptitude why" - it only goes "one level up", whereas I would like it to follow each dependency until it finds something that was installed manually, or is a system-essential component. So, you did "aptitude why libpulse0" and it said "xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin". However, was that: "xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin Depends libpulse0" or "xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin Recommends libpulse0" or "xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin Suggests libpulse0" ? The next step is to do "aptitude why xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin" and keep following things until you discover which package that you installed manually, or which essential system component, ultimately means you ended up with libpulse0. > apt-get remove --purge libpulse0 wants to remove the following (which > includes gimp): > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > atril* audacious* audacious-plugins* blueman* ffmpeg* font-manager* > geeqie* > gimp* gstreamer1.0-libav* gstreamer1.0-plugins-good* libasound2-plugins* > libatrilview3* libavdevice58* libavfilter7* libffmpegthumbnailer4v5* > libfluidsynth2* libgegl-0.4-0* libgimp2.0* libopenscenegraph161* > libpocketsphinx3* libpulse-mainloop-glib0* libpulse0* libqt5multimedia5* > libsdl-image1.2* libsdl1.2debian* libsdl2-2.0-0* libsphinxbase3* > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37* libyelp0* metacity* metacity-themes* pavucontrol* > qemu-system-gui* scribus* surf* vlc* vlc-plugin-base* xfce4* > xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin* yelp* zenity* > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 41 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Do you get the same list of packages from "aptitude purge libpulse0"? Antony. -- The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference, whereas in practice there is. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng