On Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:06:44 +0100
Alessandro Vesely via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I don't use flatpak, so yesterday I removed xdg-desktop-portal from a
> machine where it was causing df to err trying to access a fuse mount.
> I wandered how came xdg-desktop-portal was installed.
>
> Today I got the answer. I run apt-get dist-upgrade on another
> machine, and got:
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> Calculating upgrade... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> linux-headers-5.10.0-12-amd64 linux-headers-5.10.0-12-common
> linux-image-5.10.0-12-amd64 xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> chromium chromium-common chromium-sandbox chromium-shell
> linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-amd64 6 upgraded, 5 newly installed,
> 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 169 MB/169 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 365 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> Oh well, I'm going to say Y and purge xdg-sektop-portal right after.
>
> Is there a way to ban it from future upgrades?
Chromium has a hard dependency on 'xdg-desktop-portal', although (IIUC)
it is only required by 'chromium-sandbox', which is /not/ a dependency
of Chromium.
libre Grüße,
Florian
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