On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 07:36:09AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
The goalposts were moved in the text that was omitted up there. "Such a
role" refers to the hypothetical generic use of gnome-www-browser to
act as a virtual package (replacing x-www-browser) in all contexts,
not just the dependency list of gnome-core.
The statement was that it would be confusing for, say, debian-goodies
to suggest gnome-www-browser.
Sorry yes, that's right. A concrete example was this lxde bug I filed 5
years ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833268
Perhaps the developers should consider a different virtual package name
which omits the "x-" part and also the "gnome-" part. Maybe something
like gui-www-browser. But this isn't my area of expertise, so feel free
to ignore my suggestion if it's unsuitable.
I started mocking something up earlier today and that's exactly the name
I picked too :-)
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