I can confirm this behaviour on Ubuntu 18.04.1, minimal installation. When I tried to install Lollypop music player from PPA (https://launchpad.net/~gnumdk/+archive/ubuntu/lollypop) I got this
The following additional packages will be installed: ffmpeg gir1.2-totemplparser-1.0 i965-va-driver libaacs0 libass9 libavcodec57 libavdevice57 libavfilter6 libavformat57 libavresample3 libavutil55 libbdplus0 libbluray2 libbrotli1 libbs2b0 libchromaprint1 libcrystalhd3 libdc1394-22 libdouble-conversion1 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libflite1 libgme0 libgsm1 liblua5.2-0 libmysofa0 libnorm1 libopenal-data libopenal1 libopenjp2-7 libopenmpt0 libpgm-5.2-0 libpostproc54 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5positioning5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5qml5 libqt5quick5 libqt5sensors5 libqt5svg5 libqt5webchannel5 libqt5webkit5 libqt5widgets5 librubberband2 libsdl2-2.0-0 libshine3 libsnappy1v5 libsndio6.1 libsoxr0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample2 libswscale4 libuchardet0 libva-drm2 libva-wayland2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau1 libwoff1 libx264-152 libx265-146 libxcb-xinerama0 libxvidcore4 libzmq5 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 lollypop-portal mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers mpv phantomjs python3-bs4 python3-html5lib python3-lxml python3-pylast python3-pyxattr python3-webencodings qt5-gtk-platformtheme qttranslations5-l10n rtmpdump va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all youtube-dl Almost all (or maybe even all) dependencies here are because of the youtube-dl package. Ultimately I did a workaround by installing Lollypop without recommended dependencies (youtube-dl being of them). I'm not sure how I can I display a dependency tree, I suspect that pulling the ffmpeg package is one of the reason. Though why all these QT5 deps are here I have not idea. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774728 Title: Installing youtube-dl on ubuntu minimal brings in far too many extraneous dependencies To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/1774728/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
