gnome-software does not report installing a desktop environment as a dependency
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Software |
Expired
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Medium
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gnome-software (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The average user cannot tell when they are installing a desktop environment as a dependency of a package.
Having various desktop environments can reduce system performance sensibly, as processes from various desktops are running simultaneously in the background. Moreover the autoremove tool cannot always identify the dependencies when removing some of those installed packages.
For example if I install the "cortina" package, it takes with it the GNOME Display Manager and plenty of wallpapers. Then if I uninstall it and do "sudo apt-get autoremove" those packages are not detected as unused.
Another example: if I install the "rkward" package plenty of KDE services, like the Akonadi indexing service, are installed. Then launching applications in my Inter Core 2 Quad becomes noticeably slower, because my system is running both GNOME and KDE services simultaneously.
If I remove rkward and then I perform an autoremove, the system still stays slow. If I uninstall all the packages in the universe repository, perform an autoremove, and then reinstall the applications I had, the system becomes fast again.
The user shall know these potential problems beforehand.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: apt 1.0.10.2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sun Dec 20 18:54:54 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-14 (36 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: apt
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
description: | updated |
Changed in gdebi (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in qapt (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: xenial |
Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) |
Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) |
Changed in gdebi (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) |
Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) |
Changed in muon (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) |
Changed in qapt (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) |
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) |
Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in aptitude (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gdebi (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in muon (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in qapt (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in apt: | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in snappy: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
no longer affects: | snappy |
Changed in apt (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
affects: | apt → ubuntu |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | Invalid → New |
no longer affects: | ubuntu |
no longer affects: | apt (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | aptitude (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | synaptic (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | qapt (Ubuntu) |
affects: | apt (Debian) → ubuntu |
Changed in ubuntu: | |
importance: | Unknown → Undecided |
status: | Fix Released → New |
no longer affects: | ubuntu |
Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in gnome-software: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → In Progress |
no longer affects: | gdebi (Ubuntu) |
no longer affects: | muon (Ubuntu) |
summary: |
- The package manager does not report installing a desktop environment as - a dependency + gnome-software does not report installing a desktop environment as a + dependency |
Changed in gnome-software: | |
status: | In Progress → Expired |
Snappy developers, please check if this bug affects Snappy too.