[Bug 993606] Re: package installs unnecessary dependencies (review dependencies)

[Scott Kitterman]

Oops.  The lists didn't make it.

$ apt-cache depends lightdm-kde-greeter
lightdm-kde-greeter
 |Depends: debconf
  Depends: <debconf-2.0>
    cdebconf
    debconf
  Depends: kde-runtime
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libgcc1
  Depends: libkdeclarative5
  Depends: libkdecore5
  Depends: libkdeui5
  Depends: libkio5
  Depends: liblightdm-qt-2-0
  Depends: libplasma3
  Depends: libqt4-declarative
  Depends: libqtcore4
  Depends: libqtgui4
  Depends: libstdc++6
  Recommends: lightdm

$ apt-cache depends lightdm
lightdm
 |Depends: debconf
  Depends: <debconf-2.0>
    cdebconf
    debconf
  Depends: <upstart-job>
    upstart
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libglib2.0-0
  Depends: libpam0g
  Depends: libxcb1
  Depends: libxdmcp6
  Depends: libpam-runtime
  Depends: libpam-modules
  Depends: adduser
  Depends: libglib2.0-bin
  Depends: dbus
  PreDepends: dpkg
  Recommends: xserver-xorg
 |Recommends: unity-greeter
  Recommends: <lightdm-greeter>
    lightdm-kde-greeter
    lightdm-gtk-greeter
    lightdm-webkit-greeter
    unity-greeter
  Conflicts: <liblightdm-gobject-0-0>
  Conflicts: <liblightdm-qt-0-0>

$ apt-cache depends lightdm
lightdm
 |Depends: debconf
  Depends: <debconf-2.0>
    cdebconf
    debconf
  Depends: <upstart-job>
    upstart
  Depends: libc6
  Depends: libglib2.0-0
  Depends: libpam0g
  Depends: libxcb1
  Depends: libxdmcp6
  Depends: libpam-runtime
  Depends: libpam-modules
  Depends: adduser
  Depends: libglib2.0-bin
  Depends: dbus
  PreDepends: dpkg
  Recommends: xserver-xorg
 |Recommends: unity-greeter
  Recommends: <lightdm-greeter>
    lightdm-kde-greeter
    lightdm-gtk-greeter
    lightdm-webkit-greeter
    unity-greeter
  Conflicts: <liblightdm-gobject-0-0>
  Conflicts: <liblightdm-qt-0-0>

BTW, I tried to replicate your list on a clean system and didn't get
nearly so many packages, so I'm not sure exactly what's up.

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