usb-creator-gtk pulls in Unity and Compiz on Xubuntu (and probably Kubuntu, Lubuntu etc. as well)

[the-unconventional]

Today, my update manager on Xubuntu 12.10 wanted to pull in Unity and Compiz. I found out that it was caused by usb-creator-gtk's dependency on gir1.2-unity-5.0, which apparently now depends on libunity9, which in its turn depends on unity-common, causing Compiz and Metacity to be pulled in.

Anyway, for all Ubuntu derivatives, this is incredibly annoying. If possible, the dependency on gir1.2-unity-5.0 should be removed, or at least downgraded to a suggestion, to avoid such behaviour in the future. And, more importantly, to avoid this hitting 12.04 LTS as well. For now, I have purged usb-creator-common and usb-creator-gtk and use Unetbootin in its place. I'd rather have some Qt libs than half of GNOME and Unity installed.

ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 5 08:21:09 2012
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: usb-creator-gtk (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.26-generic 3.5.5
SourcePackage: usb-creator
Tags: quantal
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[the-unconventional (the-unconventional-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This seems to be fixed now.

[Pander (pander)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libunity/+bug/1224611