Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed
On Thu, 14 Jul 2022 20:14:15 +0200 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
wrote:
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> You should find out why that is, before proposing to override it. What
> if something in KDE really does need FUSE 2?
I don't think that it can happen. A package might need FUSE3 (in such
case it depends on fuse3), or it might need FUSE (any implementation)
(in such case it depends on fuse, and it's either fuse or fuse3 that
will be installed, as fuse3 Provides fuse). But it cannot really ask for
FUSE2, as far as I understand (there's no fuse2 package).
In the case I described above, if fuse gets installed, it's not because
a package needs FUSE2, it's because no package needs FUSE3. So apt picks
fuse rather than fuse3.
> (Since you found that removing fuse doesn't remove anything else, this
> implies that the relationship is only a Recommends and not a Depends.
> But that doesn't mean that removal won't break anything.)
I believe that if replacing fuse by fuse3 doesn't remove anything, it's
because fuse3 Provides fuse.
In any case: in Kali we solved that by recommending fuse3 in
kali-desktop-core, a metapackage that is always installed with every
Kali desktop. Therefore we're sure to have fuse3 (we don't let apt
guess), and we're sure that open-vm-tools will be installed if needed.
It's a better solution than modifying hw-detect as I suggested here.
Therefore I'll close this bug, as I don't think it affects Debian anyway.
Thanks for your feedback, and sorry for the noise.
Arnaud
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