KDEneon bug- missing fall-back dependency effects ability to remove VLC after install

[oshunluvr]

Just found a small bug in KDEneon. If you try to remove VLC, you may get a request to remove 80 packages - basically all of Plasma.

The issue is that KDEneon ships with "phonon4qt5-backend-vlc" as the audio backend. Removing VLC also remove this package and you can't remove it without replacing it. "phonon4qt5-backend-vlc" should be packaged to have a fall-back to "phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer" so vlc can be removed if desired, but it's not OR it's dependencies are incorrectly set.

Kubuntu doesn't have this issue and will let you remove both gstreamer and vlc phonon4qt5 packages.

Right now, I'm trying to figure out where I report KDEneon specfic bugs...

[Snowhog]

Well, as KDE neon is KDE-centric, I would suggest posting the issue at https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?...4b15fb8140da9f

[oshunluvr]

Done.

[GreyGeek]

You can try:
sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends name_of_package

and if things don't work out you can use the snapshots you made just prior to using that command to roll back.

[oshunluvr]

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?...375955#p375955

[GreyGeek]

Added my two bits.

[Rog131]

Bug reporting

KDE Bug reports: https://bugs.kde.org
--> Marked as Neon bugs: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug..._&product=neon

[oshunluvr]

Thanks for that Rog,

Here's the official bug report if anyone wants to chime in...

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=379721

[GreyGeek]

Done

[vinnywright]

added my

VINNY

[woodsmoke]

It's Neon or pure KDE centric, i can add or remove VLC on my latest and greatest Kubuntu.
woodsmoke