OK, sorry. I just found it odd that removing a library for smart card stuff 
also removes things like ubuntu-desktop or rdesktop.
Thanks for your work and your quick reply, though!

Am October 11, 2019 1:02:09 PM UTC schrieb Ludovic Rousseau 
<[email protected]>:
>Just do not remove libpcsclite1.
>
>You can reinstall it with:
>sudo apt install --reinstall libpcsclite1
>
>If you *really* think it is a bug then please report it to
>wpasupplicant
>that depends on libpcsclite1.
>
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>Title:
>  "sudo apt remove libpcsclite1" tries to remove network-manager and
>  more
>
>Status in pcsc-lite package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
>Bug description:
>  I recently needed to remove and reinstall
>  libpcsclite1_1.8.23-1_amd64.deb. I noticed that the removal of this
>  package would result in the removal of various network-relevant
>  packages (see below). I saw bug report #949912 which reported a
>  similar thing in 2012 and marked it fixed. I understand that report
>  dealt with the support of multiarch, but the behaviour of apt in the
>  case of removal of libpcsclite1 seems undesirable to me. Here's the
> console output I got when trying to remove libpcsclite1 (sorry for the
>  German output):
>
>  sudo apt remove libpcsclite1
>  [sudo] Passwort für clemens:
>  Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
>  Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
>  Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
>Die folgenden Pakete wurden automatisch installiert und werden nicht
>mehr benötigt:
>fonts-dejavu-extra java-common libatk-wrapper-java
>libatk-wrapper-java-jni libccid libcolord-gtk1
>     libgif7 libgssglue1 libnss-myhostname libstoken1 libteamdctl0
>  libtomcrypt1 libtommath1 vpnc-scripts
>  Verwenden Sie »sudo apt autoremove«, um sie zu entfernen.
>  Die folgenden Pakete werden ENTFERNT:
>ca-certificates-java gnome-control-center libfreerdp-plugins-standard
>libopenconnect5 libpcsclite1
>network-manager network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu
>network-manager-gnome network-manager
>openconnect network-manager-openconnect-gnome network-manager-pptp
>network-manager-pptp-gnome
>openconnect openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless pcscd
>plainbox-provider-checkbox
>plainbox-provider-resource-generic rdesktop tlp-rdw ubuntu-desktop
>wpasupplicant
>0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 22 zu entfernen und 30 nicht
>aktualisiert.
>  Nach dieser Operation werden 126 MB Plattenplatz freigegeben.
>  Möchten Sie fortfahren? [J/n]
>
>  The crucial part is all those packages which apt wants to remove
> ("werden ENTFERNT"). I guess I could be doing a stupid thing trying to
>  remove the libpcsclite1, but it really seems like unwanted behaviour
> since continuing this package removal as suggested by apt would result
>  in an offline computer.
>
>  Cheers,
>
>  Hans
>
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