removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Oliver Grawert wrote:
>Am Samstag, dem 01.04.2023 um 09:06 -0400 schrieb Little Girl:

>> Firefox isn't connected with this

>well, the transitional firefox deb package definitely is:

>$ apt-cache show firefox | grep Provides
>Provides: gnome-www-browser, iceweasel, www-browser, x-www-browser

Mine is the same.

>$ apt-cache show gimp-help-en | grep Depends
>Depends: gimp-help-common (= 2.10.0-1), gimp-helpbrowser |
>www-browser

Ah. Since gimp-help-en isn't installed (because it won't do so
without its wslu-friend coming along for the ride), I don't have to
currently worry about any of its dependencies.

>so make sure to always have the deb installed alongside, it provides
>some extra apt relaed bits on top of the snap (mime stuff, the
>various "Provides" that other packages expect, the correct bits for
>/etc/alternatives and more) ...

Wait. What? Are you saying that two copies of Firefox should be
installed on the same machine to satisfy some needs that aren't met
by the enforced default Snap installation of Firefox?

If so, that just made the Snap installation even worse than I
originally thought it was. Why isn't the Ubuntu team providing us
with all of the needs of our default Snap Firefox installation? It
seems odd that they would ship the operating system without
everything it needs for all of its default software already in place,
and I'm having a lot of trouble imagining that two installations of
Firefox on the same machine could be the necessary solution.

And just out of morbid curiosity, would these two installations of
Firefox on the same machine prevent wslu from being installed at all
or are those unrelated?

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.