On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 02:53:13PM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Brian Murray <br...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > > Why is it necessary to modify individual packages so that GNOME > > Software won't uninstall them? > > > > Is update-manager being a dependency of ubuntu-desktop not enough to > > prevent it from being uninstalled? > > Thank you for asking. > > GNOME Software does not notify the user about dependencies that will > be uninstalled. Packages and dependencies are details that are not > exposed at all to users of GNOME Software. > > > If it is necessary to modify every package which a metapackage depends > > on how is this work being tracked? > > Nothing is tracking this. I am making sure that the AppStream metadata > is in place and set correctly for ubuntu-desktop only. The apps that > are depends of ubuntu-desktop are gnome-control-center, nautilus, > software-properties-gtk, update-manager, and yelp. Recommends are not > a problem as they can be removed without removing the metapackage.
Won't this same work, setting up AppStream metadata, need to happen for every Ubuntu flavor that includes GNOME software? [I just tried uninstalling abiword on a Lubuntu 18.04 system and lubuntu-desktop was also removed.] Is there no way to sort this out in GNOME software? -- Brian Murray -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel