Bug#1020213: libatk1.0 pulls in at-spi2-core

[Antoine Le Gonidec]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 09:59:01 +0200 Dominick Grift <dominick.grift at defensec.nl> wrote:
> libatk1.0-0 (2.46.0-1) pulls in at-spi2-core (and
> gsettings-desktop-schemas). It would be really nice if we could
> opt out of at-spi2-core. at-spi2-core is very intrusive and by itself it
> does not add any value.

at-spi2-core is only a recommended dependency of libatk1.0-0, not a hard dependency:

$ apt depends libatk1.0-0
libatk1.0-0
   Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
   Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.62)
   Recommends: at-spi2-core
     at-spi2-core:i386

You should be able to remove at-spi2-core, or prevent its installation, and keep libatk1.0-0 installed at the same time.