On Sun, 22 May 2016 17:42:47 +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2016 17:12:35 +0200
> <emninger@???> wrote:
>
>> Anyone here knows, why the hell the installation of xpdf (in devuan)
>> needs to deinstall lxde and lxde-desktop-tasks?
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> dependency spiderweb
>
> No spiderwebs or other dust here... (Jessie):
>
> | root@nulldevice:~# apt-get install xpdf lxde task-lxde-desktop
> | Reading package lists... Done
> | Building dependency tree
> | Reading state information... Done
> | lxde is already the newest version.
> | The following extra packages will be installed:
> | libmotif-common libxm4
> | Recommended packages:
> | lxlauncher gnome-orca gsfonts-x11
> | The following NEW packages will be installed:
> | libmotif-common libxm4 task-lxde-desktop xpdf

[...]

To me it somehow looks like you have the equivalent of
APT::Install-Recommends "0"; configured on your system,
whereas the OP might have not. That might well account
for noticeable differences.

However, that's just an educated guess at best, since my
dear crystal ball is still off-site for maintenance. ;o)

Regards
Urban