Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling Chromium)

From	Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling Chromium)
Date	2021-07-21 18:10 +0200
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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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  Re: Uninstalling Chromium Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-20 20:00 +0200
    Re: Uninstalling Chromium Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-07-20 22:20 +0200
      Re: Uninstalling Chromium Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-07-20 22:40 +0200
        Re: Uninstalling Chromium Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-20 23:10 +0200
          Re: Uninstalling Chromium Christian Britz <cbritz@t-online.de> - 2021-07-20 23:30 +0200
      Re: Uninstalling Chromium Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-21 11:40 +0200
        Re: Uninstalling Chromium Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-21 12:40 +0200
          virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-21 12:50 +0200
            Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-21 13:10 +0200
              Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-21 13:40 +0200
                Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-21 13:50 +0200
                Re: virtual package names for web browsers (was Re: Uninstalling  Chromium) Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-07-21 18:10 +0200

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