At the risk of confirming that I am none too smart, I have the following
question.\

Why is xdg-desktop-portal in a fresh install of Chimaera?\

It can be safely uninstalled, as it no devuan packages in the base
install require it,

and as far as I can tell it is only needed for snap and systemd type stuff.

I only noticed it because it screws with df.

Can someone enlighten me?

Thanks.

Ken