Re: Uninstalling Chromium

From	Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Uninstalling Chromium
Date	2021-07-21 12:40 +0200
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	Hi.

On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:38:00AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:17:26PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote:
> > In my case it is meta package gnome-core. It is a pity that it
> > doesn't have an alternative dependency on www-browser, this would be
> > satisfied by google-chrome-stable, which I prefer over chromium.
> 
> www-browser is not required to be a 'graphical' browser; it is satisfied
> by Lynx, for example. There used to be an 'x-www-browser' which was
> meant to describe X11 browsers, which no longer exists, and would be a
> bit inaccurate in the "age of Wayland", too. But fundamentally the
> browser-related virtual packages are a mess and need cleaning up.

One would think that gnome-www-browser virtual package would fit such
role perfectly. I mean, if GNOME DE has some special requirement for a
browser, and Debian already has such aptly named virtual package -
surely it can be considered as a suitable dependency?

Reco

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Uninstalling Chromium andrehpb@gmail.com - 2021-07-20 20:00 +0200
  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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