Anti-feature: installing and replacing applications on update

[Bernie]

I think there is a development issue here. I ran:

$ aptitude why nautilus
i   accountsservice       Suggests gnome-control-center
i A gnome-control-center  Depends  gnome-settings-daemon (>= 3.7.91)
i A gnome-settings-daemon Depends  nautilus-data (>= 2.91.3-1)
i A nautilus-data         Suggests nautilus

(I already uninstalled nautilus, so it stops there.)

The development issue, as I see it, is that accountsservice suggests
gnome-control-center on a system which doesn't have gnome installed. This
is the first time I've read `aptitude why` output so I could be wrong but
it seems  that Ubuntu is somewhat too eager to install auxiliary packages.

PS why does nautilus-data suggest nautilus? Isn't that like feet suggesting
legs?

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Saqman2060 <saqman2060 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: Bernie <spraff at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎1/‎26/‎2015 9:26 AM
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Anti-feature: installing and replacing applications on update
>
> I just did an upgrade of Kubuntu 14.10, first in a few weeks.
>
> When I downloaded a .zip in Firefox it asked me to open it in "Archive
> Mounter" instead of "Ark" then nothing happened. I opened the downloads
> folder from Firefox and it opened in Nautilus instead of Dolphin.
>
> So, the upgrade process
> a) installed a whole new application without my permission, and
> b) changed my file associations, again without my permission.
>
> Upgrades simply should NOT do this, they should only upgrade programs
> which are already installed. I think IBus also installed itself without my
> permission a while ago too, and that is causing problems.
>
> Policy changes as to which applications are installed should only happen
> in new releases. I am extremely annoyed, I should not have to take time out
> of my day to fix these. Consider also that it is not easy to find out what
> changes have taken place. I don't want to be given more than I asked for.
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
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