removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Keith]

On 4/3/23 10:59 AM, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> Keith wrote:
> 
>> I think the more salient solution would be remove "Provides:
>> www-browser" from wslu and add the package as a Recommends: or
>> Suggests: dependency to the package wsl. The "browser" in wslu is
>> nothing more than a shell script which launches a browser in WSL. It
>> doesn't seem to have any use outside of Ubuntu in WSL.
> 
> Yes, please, although I'd go one step further and get rid of it as a
> "Recommends" package, too, because it's a "Recommends" package for
> GIMP and GIMP keeps trying to give it to me every single day since
> April of 2022, so it's acting like a "Depends" package.

Well, I'm suggesting that wslu becomes a Recommends: or Suggests: 
dependency specifically and only for the package, wsl, and removing the 
Provides: www-browser field from the wslu package's control file. That 
way, wslu will only ever be installed if you install the wsl package 
first which is what you'd want if you are running Ubuntu in WSL. Apt 
would no longer install it to satisfy a dependency on www-browser for 
any package. Right now, that's currently the only way wslu gets 
installed automatically which is puzzling.

> 
>> Of course, if you prevent apt from choosing wslu as the best package
>> to satisfy a www-browser dependency, you're likely to get another
>> package selected that'll also leave users unhappy.
> 
> I'd rather be unhappy than incapable of being a user at all, which is
> the current state of things whenever wslu is installed, so go for it.
> Probably anything you do will be better than how things currently are

I dunno, pretty sure users wouldn't be happy with edbrowse, a 
re-implementation of the editor, ed, that can now browse the internet as 
their www-browser program. Or to use one of the xemacs packages to do 
it! THAT would be painful for the uninitiated user unfamiliar with the 
EMACS OS.

> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wslu/+bug/1971757
> 
> Thank you very much for all of the helpful suggestions. I hope that
> the person or persons with the power to implement them listen(s) to
> you.
> 

-- 
Keith