[Bug 510914] [NEW] "apt-get install quassel-client-qt4" still pulls in kde

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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

** Affects: phonon-backends (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Low
         Status: Triaged


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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"apt-get install quassel-client-qt4" still pulls in kde
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510914
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