removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Keith wrote:

>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.

That sounds perfect.

>Right now, that's currently the only way wslu gets installed
>automatically which is puzzling.

It wants to get installed by gimp-help-en for me in Kubuntu 22.04
LTS and has done so in the past, but is now manually banned by me on
a daily basis.

>>> 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.

Like I said, unhappy is a big step up from bricked, which I am if I
allow wslu to satisfy the dependency, so I'd see even "unhappy" as a
big improvement.

-- 
Little Girl

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