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graysky

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too many deps while trying to remove xfce4-xfapplet-plugin - normal?

I noticed that pacgraph -c shows that xfce4-xfapplet-plugin is taking up 119 MB of space.  When I look it up, I see that it only allows gnome applets to run which I don't care about (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … et-plugin/).  When I queue up the recursive removal of it via a pacman -Rs xfce4-xfapplet-plugin there are a bunch of packages that I wouldn't expect to be in the list:

# pacman -Rs xfce4-xfapplet-plugin
checking dependencies...

Remove (27): xfce4-xfapplet-plugin-0.1.0-6  gnome-panel-2.30.0-1  libcanberra-0.23-1  libbonoboui-2.24.3-1  libgnomecanvas-2.30.1-1  
             libgnome-2.30.0-1  libbonobo-2.24.3-1  gvfs-1.6.1-1  gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-1  udisks-1.0.1-1  sg3_utils-1.28-1  
             lsof-4.83-1  libatasmart-0.17-1  fuse-2.8.4-1  gnome-vfs-2.24.3-2  gnome-mime-data-2.18.0-4  gnome-menus-2.30.0-1  
             gnome-desktop-2.30.0-1  evolution-data-server-2.30.1-1  libical-0.44-1  libgweather-2.30.0-1  libsoup-gnome-2.30.1-1  
             libproxy-0.3.1-1  libgnome-keyring-2.30.1-1  gnome-icon-theme-2.30.2.1-1  icon-naming-utils-0.8.90-1  perl-xml-simple-2.18-2  

Total Removed Size:   119.36 MB

Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] n

I don't believe it's safe to remove some of these like fuse for example.  Also, why would lsof be in the list?

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anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

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Re: too many deps while trying to remove xfce4-xfapplet-plugin - normal?

Those packages are either direct dependencies of xfce4-xfapplet-plugin or in a chain of dependencies.

For example lsof is required by udisks which is required by gnome-disk-utility which is required by gvfs which is required by libgnome which is required by libbonoboui which is required by gnome-panel which is required by xfce4-xfapplet-plugin.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-05-17 21:54:37)