Bug#534195: recommends in rhythmbox package trashes kde desktops

Philip subs at christiantena.net
Mon Jun 22 12:20:31 UTC 2009


Package: rhythmbox
Version: 0.11.6-1

If you do
"apt-get install rhythmbox" on a Lenny box with KDE installed it will
basically install a gnome desktop and replace the KDE desktop for all
users on the system.  This caused my wife to nearly kill me yesterday
because she has gotten used to KDE and doesn't know how to use gnome,
and various bits of her "new" desktop were broken anyway.

However if you do
"apt-get install --no-install-recommends rhythmbox"
then the program will install and run correctly without trampling all
over KDE.

in my package manager looking at rhythmbox I see this
recommends
scrollkeeper, yelp, avahi-daemon, sound-juicer, gnome-volume-manager,
hal, notification-daemon, gnome-control-center (>= 2.15.90),
libgnomevfs2-extra, gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly, gnome-app-install,
python-gst0.10

I think that the problem is probably gnome-control-center but I'm sorry
I know little about gnome.

As the default option appears to be to install all "recommends" it seems
to me a bit dangerous to put something in there that will trash all kde
desktops on the system if it isn't really necessary.

to reproduce problem do a minimum lenny install then
"apt-get install xorg kdm kde alsa-base alsa-utils"
once it's all finished and working do
"apt-get install rhythmbox"

thanks, Philip







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