Why for gnome-software, is gnome-software-plugin-deb listed twice?
Browsing through the packages pages on the debian website, I noticed
that at https://packages.debian.org/trixie/gnome-software you'll find
'gnome-software-plugin-deb' listed twice. One as mandatory dep and
again as rec. Why? It's confusing because I absolutely loathe using
gnome-software for apt updates and would absolutely rather use it for
flatpak packages only.
Could it be possible in trixie to configure it to never use PackageKit
and only for snap/flatpak packages? In addition, it uses appstream
metadata for the packages and more often than not, graphical
applications like firefox-esr is not searchable for the deb package,
but you'll get results for the flatpak package.
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