On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM Zeke Williams <lakele...@gmail.com> 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
