Piotr
2025-03-02 09:10:01 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,
please consider replacing hard dependencies with recommendations for applications in this metapackage. Since Debian does not offer a minimal desktop during installation, users are forced to have all default applications in the system. Removing any of them breaks the kde-standard dependency, which usually leads to the automatic removal of packages important for the environment. Of course, it is possible to install the base system and then individual packages, but this is unnecessarily time-consuming and difficult for the average user, if only because of the need to resolve conflicts of network interfaces created without initially using NetworkManager. The current list of applications is quite extensive and, in my opinion, includes applications that are not very popular even among KDE users. Of course, these are personal preferences, but the current dependency system does not allow any freedom in this matter, and the solution to this problem seems quite simple to me. In gnome matapacke this is applied, for example, in the case of the music player.
Best regards
Piotr