Wayland and Soiftware Updater

[Bret Busby]

On 16/02/2018, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Oh, I forgot to mention - I am running UbuntuMATE 16.04  .

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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