libnotify4 on focal requires gnome-shell?

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 03:52:00PM +0000, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> I'm working on being able to deploy focal servers and running into a
> bit of a snag. We use collectd, which in turn requires libnotify4. For
> some reason, on focal this is now requiring the gnome-shell package,

It doesn't *require* it; the package relationship in this case is
Recommends, so you can use --no-install-recommends to avoid it.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]