Comment 3 for bug 510914

Ah, great. Just --no-install-recommends doesn't do the trick though: I had tried that already and found kcm-phonon-xine is a Depends of phonon-backend-xine, not a Recommends. Unless I missed something in the dependency tree kcm-phonon-xine being a Suggests would give me a kde-free quassel-client-qt4 out of the box.