Recommends on unity-chromium-extension installs a lot of gnome dependencies

Bug #1154218 reported by Philip Muškovac
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
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Bug Description

Installing 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu1 tries to do this:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apg cracklib-runtime cups-pk-helper desktop-file-utils geoclue geoclue-ubuntu-geoip gkbd-capplet gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnome-control-center-signon
  gnome-desktop3-data gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-menus gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon hwdata indicator-application libaccount-plugin-1.0-0 libaccounts-glib0 libaccounts-qt1
  libappindicator3-1 libcrack2 libgnome-bluetooth11 libgnome-control-center1 libgnome-desktop-3-4 libgnome-menu-3-0 libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd8 libgoa-1.0-0 libgoa-1.0-common libgtop2-7
  libgtop2-common libindicator3-7 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libmessaging-menu0 libnm-gtk-common libnm-gtk0 libpackagekit-glib2-14 libpwquality1 librest-0.7-0 libsignon-extension1 libsignon-glib1
  libsignon-plugins-common1 libsignon-qt1 libunity-webapps0 libwacom-common libwacom2 libwnck-3-0 libwnck-3-common libxres1 mesa-utils mousetweaks nautilus-data session-migration
  signon-keyring-extension signon-ui signond tcl8.5-lib ubuntu-system-service unity-chromium-extension unity-webapps-service webaccounts-chromium-extension webaccounts-extension-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n tcl8.5
3 upgraded, 63 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Not everyone is running Unity, so could this be solved in a way where this isn't installed on a non-Unity/Gnome system which has no use for a unity-chromium-extension?
Going by debian policy, this would be an enhancement so Suggesting it should be enough.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: chromium-browser 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-11.20-generic 3.8.2
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 12 18:35:14 2013
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = kde-plasma
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-kde-plasma:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/kde-plasma:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-03-06 (6 days ago)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
gconf-keys: /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec = b'firefox\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command = b'sensible-browser %s\n'/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled = b'true\n'/desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager = b''/apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager = b''/desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme = b'gnome\n'/desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme = b'Clearlooks\n'

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Philip Muškovac (yofel) wrote :
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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Definitely.

Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
milestone: none → ubuntu-13.04-beta-2
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