What is Nepomuk and other KDE components doing on my GNOME??

[lolpenguin]

I have found some KDE components on my Gnome system, and I wonder how they got there and what they are doing there.
Examples are core excecutables, runtime data, core shared data, platform core library.
What should I do with them??

[Erik1984]

You probably installed a KDE program. Programs have their dependencies and some depend on Nepomuk. So when installing such a program you automatically get some KDE packages. An example of an often used KDE app is K3B.

[lolpenguin]

The issue is, I have never installed a KDE application (to the best of my knowledge). It should be safe to remove these dependencies?

[robert shearer]

In a terminal run...

sudo apt-get autoremove

This will remove packages that no current apps depend on.
If your kde packages are not listed for removal then some app may be using them.

At the very least, if you remove anything, make a text file listing what you removed so when/if something subsequently errors you may know the packages to reinstall. :)

If you must err then err with caution and a plan B. :D

Cheers, Bob.