Wayland and Soiftware Updater

[Bret Busby]

Hello.

In preparing one computer for updating, then running the Software
Updater, 182MB of packages are to be downloaded.

In looking through the packages descriptions (which it lists, rather
than the package names), I found
""Implementation of the Wayland EGL platform - runtime"

>From memory, Wayland is a nasty that wrecks p[eople's systems.

As it is shown there, and I had "updated" this system, in the last day
or so, I did a search in Synaptic (very useful software, is Synaptic)
for Wayland, and, found this system has that (the runtime) package for
Wayland, and, varuipous other Wayland packages, installed.

>From what I understand, Wayland serves no useful purpose, and only
exists to damage people's systems.

Is this Wayland thing, really necessary, and, as the Software updater
appears to indiscriminately add new software, rather than simply
updating existing software, can we please have a software updater,
that only updates existing software, with wanted (and, only what is
wanted, rather than bloating) software being able to be installed via
another application, like Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Center?

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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