Am Di., 16. Jan. 2024 um 18:21 Uhr schrieb Julian
<juliannfair...@protonmail.com>:
>
> > That is false, GNOME Software on Debian does depend on s-p-gtk. The
> > reason this was implemented is that the PackageKit repository
> > preferences dialog does not cover all the options needed on a Debian
> > system, and especially not when used on an Ubuntu system.
> > Instead of giving users an inferior and possibly broken way of
> > adjusting package sources, we'd rather provide them with a proper
> > selection dialog.
> >
>
> That is a notable endeavour, but I don't see why it has to be forced on GNOME
> Software users in this way. It would be entirely possible to install the app
> without overriding the way GNOME Software works, or simply to recommend it
> rather than requiring it.
Without that change, users would have had broken repository
management. We do not want to ship broken things.
> > Certainly not, Debian's job is to integrate software to form a
> > cohesive operating system, and adding/removing dependencies, changing
> > compiler flags that affect dependency selection and applying
> > integration patches is an integral part of that.
> >
>
> For mobile devices, this actually makes the experience of using Debian worse.
> s-p-gtk is not an adaptive app, and there is no way to prevent it from
> overriding GNOME Software's functionality, or to uninstall it without also
> being forced to uninstall GNOME Software along with it.
Fair point. We could maybe make it so g-s-p is only a recommended
dependency, and modify the code so when g-s-p is not available, it
falls back to the GS dialog. I think I fixed things enough so that at
the very least you can enable/disable repositories without running
into problems, and most basic features should actually work (you can
not manage keys or add repositories though).
Cheers,
Matthias
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