Hi. On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:38:00AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:17:26PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > > In my case it is meta package gnome-core. It is a pity that it > > doesn't have an alternative dependency on www-browser, this would be > > satisfied by google-chrome-stable, which I prefer over chromium. > > www-browser is not required to be a 'graphical' browser; it is satisfied > by Lynx, for example. There used to be an 'x-www-browser' which was > meant to describe X11 browsers, which no longer exists, and would be a > bit inaccurate in the "age of Wayland", too. But fundamentally the > browser-related virtual packages are a mess and need cleaning up.
One would think that gnome-www-browser virtual package would fit such role perfectly. I mean, if GNOME DE has some special requirement for a browser, and Debian already has such aptly named virtual package - surely it can be considered as a suitable dependency? Reco