Re: Uninstalling Chromium
Hi.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:38:00AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:17:26PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote:
> > In my case it is meta package gnome-core. It is a pity that it
> > doesn't have an alternative dependency on www-browser, this would be
> > satisfied by google-chrome-stable, which I prefer over chromium.
>
> www-browser is not required to be a 'graphical' browser; it is satisfied
> by Lynx, for example. There used to be an 'x-www-browser' which was
> meant to describe X11 browsers, which no longer exists, and would be a
> bit inaccurate in the "age of Wayland", too. But fundamentally the
> browser-related virtual packages are a mess and need cleaning up.
One would think that gnome-www-browser virtual package would fit such
role perfectly. I mean, if GNOME DE has some special requirement for a
browser, and Debian already has such aptly named virtual package -
surely it can be considered as a suitable dependency?
Reco
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