resolving dependencies...
:: There are 8 providers available for ladspa-host:
:: Repository extra
1) ardour 2) audacity 3) carla 4) element 5) guitarix 6) muse 7) qtractor 8) rosegarden
what is this ladspa-host? why I want or need it now?
It’s part of the sound system. And you need to pick one of the listed options because of a packaging decision. Each of the listed alternatives has support for MIDI, and that’s what this is about.
The most lightweight option is probably going to be audacity or qtractor. The others are pretty much all music production suites.
ladspa is a dependency of shotcut, ffmpeg and ffmpeg4. So if one has either of those packages installed — and I’m guessing just about everyone will have ffmpeg — then ladspa is also installed.
ladspa is an optional dependency for ffmpeg and ffmpeg4
None of those packages provide ladspa-host
I suspect OP uninstalled an audio package without removing a LADSPA plugin (optional) dependency
that should be listed in addition to a false-positve reponse for package ladspa
thank you for explanation, but … yay -R pulseaudio-equalizer-ladspa ladspa swh-plugins did the trick so far no complications… and no idea, how I even got those packages in the first place… probably some leftover dependencies that didn’t go away with orphan removal.