Instead of a hard dependency from update-notifier-common -> ubuntu-drivers-common, how about seeding ubuntu-drivers-common directly in desktop, and making list-oem-metapackages no-op if not installed?
Instead of a hard dependency from update- notifier- common -> ubuntu- drivers- common, how about seeding ubuntu- drivers- common directly in desktop, and making list-oem- metapackages no-op if not installed?