'meld' insane dependencies?

[jjalocha]

Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. There's an Ubuntu package available.

But I don't understand why 'aptitude' wants to install so many (multimedia!!!) packages, even if my system is up-to-date.



$ sudo aptitude install meld
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
esound-clients esound-common gnome-media gnome-media-common gstreamer0.10-alsa
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x libaudiofile0
libavc1394-0 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcaca0
libcdio6 libcucul0 libdv4 libesd-alsa0 libgda2-3 libgda2-bin libgda2-common libgdl-1-0
libgdl-1-common libgksu1.2-1 libgksuui1.0-1 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-media0
libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgtksourceview-common
libgtksourceview1.0-0 libiec61883-0 libmetacity0 libnautilus-burn4 liboil0.3
libpanel-applet2-0 libraw1394-8 libshout3 libtotem-plparser1 libvisual-0.4-0
libvisual-0.4-plugins libvorbisenc2 metacity-common oss-compat python-gnome2
python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras python-gnomecanvas
The following NEW packages will be installed:
esound-clients esound-common gnome-media gnome-media-common gstreamer0.10-alsa
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-x libaudiofile0
libavc1394-0 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcaca0
libcdio6 libcucul0 libdv4 libesd-alsa0 libgda2-3 libgda2-bin libgda2-common libgdl-1-0
libgdl-1-common libgksu1.2-1 libgksuui1.0-1 libgnome-desktop-2 libgnome-media0
libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgtksourceview-common
libgtksourceview1.0-0 libiec61883-0 libmetacity0 libnautilus-burn4 liboil0.3
libpanel-applet2-0 libraw1394-8 libshout3 libtotem-plparser1 libvisual-0.4-0
libvisual-0.4-plugins libvorbisenc2 meld metacity-common oss-compat python-gnome2
python-gnome2-desktop python-gnome2-extras python-gnomecanvas
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[engla]

You don't use Ubuntu/gnome right? That package depends on python-gnome2 which in turn depends on lots of things in gnome etc.. hence the large collection of packages of all types. So to use this package, you basically have to install lots of "gnome backend" things.

[jjalocha]

Thanks, engla, you're right, I'm using Xubuntu. I'll dig into this. I think I'll contact the developers about it, too.