"Guvcview doesn't depend upon uvcdynctrl it just recommends it." Okay, but unless you disable "recommends", uvcdynctrl gets installed. Based on a little bit of research I performed, it is not recommended to disable "recommends" because recommended packages are usually needed for a more useful installation.
Source of info for not disabling "recommends": https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/122289/why-install-recommends-default-is-true Does guvcview function or function well enough without uvcdynctrl? *The following additional packages will be installed:** * * libguvcview-2.0-2 libportaudio2 libwebcam0 uvcdynctrl uvcdynctrl-data** * *The following NEW packages will be installed:** * * guvcview libguvcview-2.0-2 libportaudio2 libwebcam0 uvcdynctrl uvcdynctrl-data** * *0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.** * *Need to get 266 kB/386 kB of archives.** * *After this operation, 1,437 kB of additional disk space will be used.*
