On Sonntag, 5. Juni 2016 19:51:08 CEST Allen James wrote: > Dear maintainers,
Allen, this is mostly a user support issue, maintainers can not prevent you from breaking the system. Also it is no KDE catastrophe. It is a "I remove a ton of packages and expect things still to work" catastrophe. > I use Debian Testing. Before today, my previous dist-upgrade was on May 28, > at which points all packages were up to date and KDE 5.4 was running > smoothly. Today (June 5) I again dist-upgrade my laptop and now KDE is very > broken. > > The following is a list of many of the KDE-related packages upgraded today > (others not related to KDE/Qt/KF5/etc were removed to the best of my > ability): […] > After the dist-upgrade I ran apt-get autoremove as I usually do. The > following packages were listed. It seemed strange but I went ahead anyway: > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > accountsservice bluedevil breeze breeze-cursor-theme breeze-icon-theme > fonts-oxygen ieee-data kde-config-sddm kde-style-breeze kde-style-breeze-qt4 > kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kde-style-qtcurve-qt4 kde-style-qtcurve-qt5 khotkeys > khotkeys-data kinfocenter kmenuedit kscreen ksysguard ksysguard-data > ksysguardd kwin-style-breeze kwin-wayland kwin-wayland-backend-drm kwrited Then do not proceed if things seems strange to you. Just don´t. If apt wants to remove a ton of packages it may be breaking your system. Feel free to ask here first. Cause you basically removed a good part of Plasma and KF with that command. Although I don´t see any sddm removed there, just a config module related to it, and I don´t see anything of the core of Plasma being removed, except maybe systemsettings, but that I think is optional, I think that removing the icon theme, the breeze theme could break things. If you follow Plasma 5 / KF 5 packaging development in Sid or Testing, then get yourself knowledgeable in package management. Things like you mention can happen at various states of packages being build as the order in which packages appear in testing is quite unpredictable in the current Debian development process. For that reason I have a second desktop installed. I choose MATE, cause that is even independent of Qt and C++, which helped a lot in GCC/G++ 5 transition. I suggest you try apt update apt install plasma-desktop plasma-framework sddm I think sddm didn´t get removed, but who knows. There is no "plasma-desktop" mentioned as being removed, yet with the packages that have been removed there cannot be any plasma-desktop meta package installed anymore. Ciao, -- Martin
