On Sat 12/Mar/2022 18:27:45 +0100 Florian Zieboll wrote:
On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:06:44 +0100 Alessandro Vesely via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:Hi all, I don't use flatpak, so yesterday I removed xdg-desktop-portal from a machine where it was causing df to err trying to access a fuse mount. I wandered how came xdg-desktop-portal was installed. Today I got the answer. I run apt-get dist-upgrade on another machine, and got: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-5.10.0-12-amd64 linux-headers-5.10.0-12-common linux-image-5.10.0-12-amd64 xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk The following packages will be upgraded: chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox chromium-shell linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-amd64 6 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 169 MB/169 MB of archives. After this operation, 365 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Oh well, I'm going to say Y and purge xdg-sektop-portal right after. Is there a way to ban it from future upgrades?Chromium has a hard dependency on 'xdg-desktop-portal', although (IIUC) it is only required by 'chromium-sandbox', which is /not/ a dependency of Chromium.
Indeed, it also uninstalled chromium. I'm not sure I had installed it before. Perhaps it was installed and that's what triggered the installation of xdg-desktop-portal.
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