SOLVED, was: removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[M. Fioretti]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 12:39:08 PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> > If anybody has a clue as to what happened, and why, I'd still like to
> > know, of course. Frankly, I do not know when or how wslview entered my
> > system, as I fail to see any way I may use it...
> 
>     $ aptitude why wslu
>     i   gimp-help-en Depends  gimp-helpbrowser | www-browser
>     p   wslu         Provides www-browser
> 
> Jeff

thanks, but that only moves the problem, doesn't it? For example, on MY system, the
same aptitude query returns:


 aptitude why wslu
i   digikam Recommends www-browser
p   wslu    Provides   www-browser

so the question becomes: why on Earth should any Linux package, on a
Linux system, need to install a **windows-compatibility package** to
open local files, or web pages, with the surely available Linux
applications? Is this in any way related to the firefox-as-snap thing
I mentioned in my original request?

Marco