Thanks for your elaboration. My reasons for requesting this are: - GNOME != Unity, with all respect for Unity, but there are GNOME users that do not use any of it - at the moment it pulls in only 2 kB, but when Unity extends dependencies (without being aware of this little package), it could pull in a whole lot more are did happen in the past - hence, suggestion to split the package in thunderbird-gnome-support and thunderbird-unity-support - for recommended packages I can still decide myself to install or deinstall it, with hard dependencies that is more difficult, luckily there is no hard dependency on thunderbird-gnome-support
Perhaps it is all a bit too much on the details in order to optimise this for GNOME non-Unity users, but I hope you also see my point. So sudo dpkg -P thunderbird-gnome-support works for me. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1669997 Title: Remove libunity9 package dependency for thunderbird-gnome-support Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: Please, drop the dependency from thunderbird-gnome-support on libunity9. There is no need for it and it unfairly forces non-Unity users to have Unity packages installed. If there is a reason for it, create thunderbird-unity-support and manage it there. See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pidgin/+bug/1635951 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1669997/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
