Binary package hint: quassel
On a fairly vanilla lucid install with no kde and at least almost no qt packages installed "sudo apt-get install quassel-client-qt4" wants to install things like kdebase-runtime and kdelibs5 that I would prefer not to have installed. This seems to be because it pulls in phonon, which pulls in phonon-backend-xine via a "phonon-backend-xine | phonon-backend" dependency, which pulls in kcm-phonon-xine, which pulls in a bunch of kde. "sudo apt-get install phonon-backend-gstreamer" before installing quassel-client-qt4 avoids the kde dependencies.
I am not sure whose bug this is, or if it is even a bug (I would lower the severity but the ui I am strongly recommended to use for bug filing will not let me), but it would have been nice if "apt-get install quassel-client-qt4" had not installed parts of kde. Can phonon-backend-xine run without kcm-phonon-xine (currently a hard "Depends")? Or would it make sense for quassel-client-qt4 to recommend a different phonon backend (assuming that actually causes apt-get to do what I want? I don't know it that well...)
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 21 23:17:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: quassel-client-qt4 0.5.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-11.15-generic
SourcePackage: quassel
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-11-generic i686
I've been meaning to bump down phonon-