Comment 10 for bug 1983794

On Fri, 2022-08-19 at 16:47 +0000, Nathan Teodosio wrote:
> Hey Lindsay, judging by
>
> $ apt rdepends libcanberra-gtk3-module
> libcanberra-gtk3-module
> Reverse Depends:
> Depends: ubuntu-mate-desktop
> Depends: ubuntu-mate-core
> Depends: screenruler
> Depends: python3-goocalendar
> Suggests: budgie-control-center
> Suggests: gnome-control-center
> Recommends: libcanberra-gtk3-0
>
> You can't uninstall it without uninstalling your MATE desktop as
> well.

Ubuntu-MATE has some very sensible features, especially the drawer
system, which seem to be decades ahead of other GUIs, especially the
boys and girls from Redmond.

> That doesn't mean you can't disable it, as in
>
> cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules
> mv libcanberra-gtk3-module.so libcanberra-gtk3-module.so.disabled
>
> However you would then you would be on your own.

Yeah, one can get into trouble trying to do an end-run around
distribution packaging systems. Been there, done that, when
circumstances required it, but there are frequently "issues".

I'm sure y'all will be pushing a fix for libcanberra into the Ubuntu
22.04 update stream, so I'll probably just put up with the annoyance in
Evolution and wait for the fix.

> This was really mostly tracked down by Milan, kudos to him!

I dropped him a thank you note too :)