On Wed, 16 May 2018 21:20:38 -0400
dep <dep@...> wrote:

> evening, folks . . .
> 
> i just attempted to install a deb package, which failed for the lack of
> some qt5 widgets. so i ran apt-get -f install, and after it ran it
> informed me of this: The following packages were automatically installed
> and are no longer required: acpi amarok-common-trinity
> amarok-engine-xine-trinity amarok-trinity arts-trinity bluetooth
> bluez-utils crystalcursors desktop-effects-tde-trinity dmz-cursor-theme
> fonts-arabeyes foo2zjs fortune-mod fortunes-min fotoxx-common
> gir1.2-ges-1.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
> gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gstreamer1.0-gnonlin
> gtk-qt-engine-trinity gtk3-tqt-engine-trinity gwenview-trinity
> kaffeine-trinity karm-trinity katapult-trinity kbstate-trinity
> kdbusnotification-trinity keep-trinity kmag-trinity kmailcvt-trinity
> kmousetool-trinity kmplayer-base-trinity kmplayer-konq-plugins-trinity
> konversation-trinity kopete-trinity kpf-trinity kppp-trinity krdc-trinity
> krfb-trinity ksplash-engine-moodin-trinity ksystemlog-trinity
> ktorrent-trinity kubuntu-default-settings-trinity
> kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts-trinity kvkbd-trinity landscape-client
> landscape-common lftp libavahi-tqt-1 libccfits0 libcfitsio3
> libdbus-tqt-1-1c2 libges-1.0-0 libifp4 libjs-sphinxdoc libmp4v2-2 libnjb5
> libqt5concurrent5 libraw9 librsync1 libscim8c2a min12xxw pnm2ppa
> powermanagement-interface pxljr python-gst-1.0 python-pylibacl
> python-pyxattr qt4-tqt-theme-engine rdesktop rdiff-backup
> scim-bridge-client-qt scim-im-agent scim-modules-socket screen
> speedcrunch splix strigi-daemon synaptic-trinity tqca-tls ttf-arabeyes
> ttf-arphic-ukai ttf-arphic-uming ttf-lao ttf-malayalam-fonts
> ttf-thai-tlwg ttf-unfonts-core
> 
> now, clearly some of these i really do not need -- ttf-malayalam-fonts
> comes to mind -- but there's a lot of trinity stuff that is listed here.
> am i safe in telling it that, yes, it may autoremove these? it seems a
> little much.
> 

You removed some trinity related desktop metapackage (from this list i
think if was one of the redmond-default packages). You should either
reinstall that metapackage or check this list carefully and mark anything
you actually need as manually installed. Nothing in this list is
system-critical, its mostly multimedia and weird languages input/display
stuff, but you probably want to keep some of this (notice there is lftp,
screen, rdesktop, rdiff-backup and bluez on this list)

-- 
  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)