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Message #00848
[Bug 1764596] Re: vanilla-gnome-desktop dependencies too strict
Now that certain utilities are being shipped as snaps by default this
might be more important. E.g. default install of 18.04 includes gnome-
system-monitor as a snap but if you want the vanilla gnome desktop you
end up with the deb version as well. If you're using snaps it makes more
sense to use the snap version as it can see the snap processes (doesn't
look like the deb one can) so would be nicer to be able to remove the
deb version rather than the snap if the duplicated menu entries got
annoying.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1764596
Title:
vanilla-gnome-desktop dependencies too strict
Status in ubuntu-gnome-meta package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Since the vanilla-gnome-desktop package lists a number of GNOME
desktop apps (Contacts, Calendar, Todo, etc) as Depends, people who
want a stock upstrem GNOME experience on Ubuntu but also use Flatpak
to receive updates for their applications are forced to either install
and manage duplicates of these applications, or uninstall vanilla-
gnome-desktop, breaking future upgrades.
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-gnome-desktop, or moved to a separate package
(vanilla-gnome-apps?) which could Depend on vanilla-gnome-desktop and
be listed in the Recommends for it.
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-gnome-desktop 0.83
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-13.14-generic 4.15.10
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)
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