Re: Why for gnome-software, is gnome-software-plugin-deb listed twice?

Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Mar 2025 08:12:09 -0400

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On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM Zeke Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you! It's a relief I can have flatpak and gnome-software
> together without dragging in functionality from packagekit. Why is it
> that debian 12 didn't have this? Design limitations or time
> limitations? I'm sure there was a reason, but I want to know more.

I did not know it was possible to split the .deb handling parts out of
gnome-software before the middle of 2023 which was too late for Debian
12.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha