vanilla-gnome-desktop dependencies too strict
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-gnome-meta (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
Since the vanilla-
It would be good to either drop these application packages to Recommends (while keeping important infrastructure such as Software and Shell) so they can at least be uninstalled without also uninstalling vanilla-
Either way, for end users who don't care about Flatpak (or Snaps) the experience should be the same since installing Recommends is the default.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: vanilla-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 17 11:47:15 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-22 (1000 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: ubuntu-gnome-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
- Tim Lunn: Disapprove
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Changed in ubuntu-gnome-meta (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Hi Michael,
I would be happy for apps to be downgraded to Recommends, if you have a look at the seed[1] alot are already marked recommends (Recommends are the ones marked like "* (gnome-weather)". Overall the selection that are marked Recommends is a little inconsistent and this could certainly be cleaned up a bit.
If you would like to prepare a patch or Merge Proposal, would be happy to sponsor it for you.
As a side note, one thing we has planned to do for a long time, but no one has ever got around to doing it. Is to split the parkageset out into seperate core and apps packages.
[1] https:/ /bazaar. launchpad. net/~ubuntu- gnome-dev/ ubuntu- seeds/ubuntu- gnome.bionic/ view/head: /desktop /code.launchpad .net/~ubuntu- gnome-dev/ ubuntu- seeds/ubuntu- gnome.bionic
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