Bug#950994: Discourage package in contrib to install the real program via another package manager
On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 11:31 AM Olek Wojnar <olek@debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Sorry for the slow reply, life has been interesting recently...
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> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 2:26 PM Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org> wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>> May not answer you question directly.
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>> There's something called software center. Like discover[1] for KDE plasma,
>> gnome-software[2] for GNOME.
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>> Users can install either debian package, or flatpak, or snap apps.
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>> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/plasma-discover
>> [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/gnome-software
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> Ah, yes. That sounds familiar. Maybe this should be the location to implement that functionality, and implement it upstream.
> Maybe such a functionality could be shared and eventually integrated into aptitude and even apt itself.
IMO, this implements in the wrong place.
If there are such tools, like discover and gnome-software(they are GUI
tools, maybe there's CLI tools which I don't know),
it should be consumer of apt/aptitude, snap, and flatpak. Apt itself
should be in the same level of snap.
It may be a common sense that apt is the entry to install software for
a Debian user,
but it's also common sense that apt should install a *deb* package.
It's really surprise that apt is installing a snap package, via some magics.
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Shengjing Zhu
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