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gnome-software package

  1. Bug #1528028
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1528028

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Mathew Hodson (mhodson) wrote : Re: The package manager does not report installing a desktop environment as a dependency

Comment #5 indicated that gnome-software might be able to help by showing more information.

There is a similar upstream bug that talks about related problems. The displayed size doesn't take into account all the dependencies that need to be pulled in, which can be very large, and when an application is removed all the dependencies that were pulled in are not automatically uninstalled.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734645

"1) Size estimation is off. So for 0ad for example we show it's 3.2MB, while it requires a -data package that is a 546MB download and 1.3GB on disk.

2) When removing the game from Software, the -data package will not be removed. This can either be solved with some special-casing in Software (easy) or convincing the maintainers to "do the right thing" (probably not easy)."