Fwd: ubuntu-wsl=1.478 pulls in unnecessary packages for WSL 1

[iBug]

And I put it on hold because I dislike having unneeded stuff bloating
my WSL1 installation. Just how I like my Debian VPS using only 1 GB of
hard disk and 60 MB of RAM.

I also heard that systemd doesn't work (by default) on WSL2, either,
so the decision to pull in the whole systemd suite seems completely
inappropriate to me.

I hope some Ubuntu dev can drop this redundant thing from WSL.
Otherwise it's more likely that I'll just get rid of ubuntu-wsl and
start managing dependencies manually.

Regards,
iBug


On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 12:40 AM Henri Girard <aishen at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Yes, but I installed it because I don't mind having a lot of files,
> because it  is the only way to use ubuntu softs one can't use on w11.
> For example sagemath is the last version 9.5 on jammy. I use gwsl too
> which is fine to use in root
>
> Regards
>
> Henri
>
> Le 20/03/2022 à 17:33, iBug a écrit :
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm re-posting this because I previously configured DMARC for my
> > domain incorrectly, which I suspect is causing users not to receive
> > the email.
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: iBug <i at ibugone.com>
> > Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 10:40 PM
> > Subject: ubuntu-wsl=1.478 pulls in unnecessary packages for WSL 1
> > To: <ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Cc: iBug <i at ibugone.com>
> >
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > When following routine updates for my WSL1, which has already been
> > upgraded to Jammy, I noticed a bunch of unwanted packages:
> >
> > # apt upgrade --no-install-recommends
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > Reading state information... Done
> > Calculating upgrade... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> >    apport byobu dbus gettext-base gir1.2-glib-2.0
> > gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 iproute2 libappstream4 libargon2-1 libbpf0
> > libcryptsetup12 libdevmapper1.02.1 libgirepository-1.0-1
> > libglib2.0-bin libgstreamer1.0-0 libip4tc2 libkmod2 libmnl0
> > libnewt0.52
> >    libpackagekit-glib2-18 libpam-systemd libpolkit-agent-1-0
> > libpolkit-gobject-1-0 libstemmer0d libxmlb2 libxtables12 packagekit
> > pkexec policykit-1 polkitd python3-apport python3-blinker
> > python3-cffi-backend python3-cryptography python3-distro python3-gi
> >    python3-httplib2 python3-importlib-metadata python3-jeepney
> > python3-jwt python3-keyring python3-launchpadlib
> > python3-lazr.restfulclient python3-lazr.uri python3-more-itertools
> > python3-newt python3-oauthlib python3-problem-report python3-pyparsing
> >    python3-secretstorage python3-six python3-software-properties
> > python3-wadllib python3-zipp screen software-properties-common systemd
> > systemd-sysv
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >    ubuntu-wsl
> > 1 upgraded, 58 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 11.4 MB of archives.
> > After this operation, 43.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> > Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> >
> > Clearly something's going wrong with the pending version for ubuntu-wsl:
> >
> > # apt show ubuntu-wsl=1.478
> > ...
> > Depends: apport, binutils, byobu, curl, dirmngr, git, gnupg, htop,
> > patch, screen, software-properties-common, tmux, vim, wsl-setup
> > ...
> > # apt show ubuntu-wsl=1.477
> > ...
> > Depends: gnupg, wsl-setup
> > Recommends: dbus-x11, show-motd
> > ...
> >
> > The offending dependency chain is:
> >
> > ubuntu-wsl=1.478 -> software-properties-common -> packagekit ->
> > policykit-1 -> polkitd -> default-logind|logind (selected
> > libpam-systemd) -> everything else
> >
> > I've put ubuntu-wsl on hold on my WSL1 installation. Hopefully someone
> > will find a way to sort things out and keep systemd and dbus out of
> > WSL1, where they're not designed to work.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > iBug
> >
>
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