On Saturday 18 December 2021 at 11:22:10, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Saturday 18 December 2021 at 11:14:59, Didier Kryn wrote:
> >     I noticed, looking for packages the name of which include just the

> >
> > string "pulse", that a few PA libraries are still installed and cannot
> > be removed because a lot of packages have a dependency on them, such as
> > xfce4, atril and even gimp!
>
> Please can you post the output of "aptitude show gimp" from the machine
> where you have seen this?

Another useful output to see would be "aptitude why XXX" where XXX is any of
the PA libraries you say you have found which gimp etc. depends on.

"why" will tell you which other packages either depend on, or recommend, the
one you've asked about, and is a useful way to find out how (or indeed why)
something got installed on your machine.

> I cannot find any dependency between the two, although there is a
> "suggested" for libasound2 on gimp. I haven't yet found a link between
> libasound2 and pulseaudio, but even if there were, a suggestion is very
> different from a dependency.
>
>
> Antony.

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