On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM Zeke Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Browsing through the packages pages on the debian website, I noticed > > that at https://packages.debian.org/trixie/gnome-software you'll find > > 'gnome-software-plugin-deb' listed twice. One as mandatory dep and > > again as rec. Why? It's confusing because I absolutely loathe using > > gnome-software for apt updates and would absolutely rather use it for > > flatpak packages only. > > That page is not giving you precise enough information about what the > dependencies look like. > > gnome-software has > Depends: gnome-software-plugin-deb | gnome-software-plugin > > where gnome-software-plugin is a virtual package provided by any of > the separate gnome-software-plugin-* packages. > > gnome-software also has Recommends: gnome-software-plugin-deb so that > the package is correctly installed for people upgrading from Debian > 12. I think for Debian 14 that we'll move this Recommends to gnome or > gnome-core. > > gnome-software-plugin-deb is a separate package that can now be > removed but this wasn't possible in Debian 12. > > > Could it be possible in trixie to configure it to never use PackageKit > > and only for snap/flatpak packages? In addition, it uses appstream > > metadata for the packages and more often than not, graphical > > applications like firefox-esr is not searchable for the deb package, > > but you'll get results for the flatpak package. > > Yes, already answered above. > > Thank you, > Jeremy Bícha
Thank you! It's a relief I can have flatpak and gnome-software together without dragging in functionality from packagekit. Why is it that debian 12 didn't have this? Design limitations or time limitations? I'm sure there was a reason, but I want to know more.
