Too many deps while trying to remove xfce4-xfapplet-plugin - normal?

Question

I noticed that pacgraph -c shows that xfce4-xfapplet-plugin is taking up 119 MB of space.  When I look it up, I see that it only allows gnome applets to run which I don't care about (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra … et-plugin/).  When I queue up the recursive removal of it via a pacman -Rs xfce4-xfapplet-plugin there are a bunch of packages that I wouldn't expect to be in the list:
# pacman -Rs xfce4-xfapplet-plugin
checking dependencies...
Remove (27): xfce4-xfapplet-plugin-0.1.0-6 gnome-panel-2.30.0-1 libcanberra-0.23-1 libbonoboui-2.24.3-1 libgnomecanvas-2.30.1-1
libgnome-2.30.0-1 libbonobo-2.24.3-1 gvfs-1.6.1-1 gnome-disk-utility-2.30.1-1 udisks-1.0.1-1 sg3_utils-1.28-1
lsof-4.83-1 libatasmart-0.17-1 fuse-2.8.4-1 gnome-vfs-2.24.3-2 gnome-mime-data-2.18.0-4 gnome-menus-2.30.0-1
gnome-desktop-2.30.0-1 evolution-data-server-2.30.1-1 libical-0.44-1 libgweather-2.30.0-1 libsoup-gnome-2.30.1-1
libproxy-0.3.1-1 libgnome-keyring-2.30.1-1 gnome-icon-theme-2.30.2.1-1 icon-naming-utils-0.8.90-1 perl-xml-simple-2.18-2
Total Removed Size: 119.36 MB
Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] n
I don't believe it's safe to remove some of these like fuse for example.  Also, why would lsof be in the list?

Answer 1

Those packages are either direct dependencies of xfce4-xfapplet-plugin or in a chain of dependencies.
For example lsof is required by udisks which is required by gnome-disk-utility which is required by gvfs which is required by libgnome which is required by libbonoboui which is required by gnome-panel which is required by xfce4-xfapplet-plugin.
Last edited by anonymous_user (2010-05-17 21:54:37)