https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504508
Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Resolution|--- |UPSTREAM
Status|REPORTED |RESOLVED
CC| |n...@kde.org
--- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <n...@kde.org> ---
This is a limitation in the APT PackageKit plugin, which Discover uses for
this. Because the PackageKit library intentionally does not support showing
multiple-choice UI prompts to the user, there are two remaining options for how
the APT plugin can handle this situation:
1. Automatically proceed, assuming you're okay with whatever changes it needs
to make
2. Automatically fail, showing you an ugly error message and leaving you to
figure it out
It chose #2.
The only practical way for this to be improved is to stop using PackageKit, and
to write a custom APT backend specially for Discover, which could then handle
situations like this better.
However that's something that would really need initiative from people in the
APT packaging world. All the custom backends in Discover that do exist (e.g.
for SteamOS, Kinoite, Alpine Linux, and KDE Linux) were contributed by the
people working on those distros. It would have to be the same for any
hypothetical custom APD backend in Discover.
It's a sucky situation, but it is what it is.
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