On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 6:51 PM Pablo Mazzini <pmazz...@gmail.com> wrote: > gnome-session can work properly without xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. > > As per the policy: > Depends: This declares an absolute dependency. > Recommends: This declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. > > Please recommend xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. > > The gnome-core meta package already provides this dependency and it may > be appropriate there.
I am not convinced by your justification. Flatpak and Snap packages are expected to work on Debian and require an xdg-desktop-portal implementation. It is impossible for Flatpak (or Snap) alone to depend on the correct portal implementation for each desktop. Therefore, the desktop session needs to depend on the portal that has the best integration. The Debian GNOME team has gotten bugs for years from people who complain that their system doesn't work after disabling installing recommended packages. Ironically, the fact that you are asking for this change proves to me that there are people who intend to remove recommended packages. I am really struggling to see how the benefit of having one less package installed outweighs the harm caused by sandboxed apps being broken. Thank you, Jeremy Bícha
