Wayland and Soiftware Updater

[Bret Busby]

On 16/02/2018, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 03:45:43AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>> In looking through the packages descriptions (which it lists, rather
>> than the package names), I found
>> ""Implementation of the Wayland EGL platform - runtime"
>
> That's libwayland-egl1-mesa, which provides support for clients that run
> on Wayland, but doesn't cause your system to run Wayland.  It won't
> affect your system if you aren't running Wayland.
>
>> From what I understand, Wayland serves no useful purpose, and only
>> exists to damage people's systems.
>
> It's clear that you don't like it, but there's no need to ascribe
> malicious intent to its authors.  The code of conduct says that we
> strive to "assume good intentions".
>
>> 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?
>
> Since (for example) libgtk-3-0 depends on libwayland-egl1-mesa in 16.04,
> it is hardly the software updater's fault.  I strongly advise against
> attempting to remove it, because that will either remove packages you
> actually do need or break your system's dependency database; in either
> case you will do more damage than you would have done if you'd just left
> well alone.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
>


Okay.

Thank you for your explanation.

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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