[Bug 1528028] Re: The package manager does not report installing a desktop environment as a dependency

[Mathew Hodson]

Comment #5 indicated that gnome-software might be able to help by
showing more information.

There is a similar upstream bug that talks about related problems. The
displayed size doesn't take into account all the dependencies that need
to be pulled in, which can be very large, and when an application is
removed all the dependencies that were pulled in are not automatically
uninstalled.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734645

"1) Size estimation is off. So for 0ad for example we show it's 3.2MB,
while it requires a -data package that is a 546MB download and 1.3GB on
disk.

2) When removing the game from Software, the -data package will not be
removed. This can either be solved with some special-casing in Software
(easy) or convincing the maintainers to "do the right thing" (probably
not easy)."

** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
       Status: Invalid => New

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  The package manager does not report installing a desktop environment
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