Feature request: warning or removal of other DE's apps

[Siniša Perović]

Hi.

I'm using Linux exclusively from cca 2005 and I've always been avoiding Software Centre. The reason is that Software Center will never warn you that you are about to install few hundreds megabytes of another DE like KDE as a dependency.

Example: if you try to install amarok, the player anyone will easily find online as a popular music player, will install over 100 packages and use more that 400MB of your disk space. There are plenty of other apps that will install a complete QT or Mono environment and the users will never know anything about that.

I'm not saying that we all should stay clear of KDE, QT or Mono but as a user I would like to be aware of that before making the decision to install or not.

Also, there are a viable alternatives for amarok but user just doesn't know about them and the Software Centre is not giving any information.

I hope that AppCenter (I've just backed it up with 25USD) will either remove old/obsolete and apps from other DEs, leaving them for Synaptic/Apt/Aptitude to install, or implement some way of alerting a user what is going to happen regarding dependencies and/or that there are more eOS friendly alternatives.

God speed.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of an existing wishlist report to show the download file size (including new dependencies). I think that should mostly cover this case.

I agree that eventually the repos should probably lean more toward only having apps built for elementary OS, but that's not really something that can be solved within the context of AppCenter the app.

[Siniša Perović (sinisa-p)]

Thank you Daniel.