xdg-desktop-portal-xapp dependency
| Task Info (Flyspray) | |
|---|---|
| Opened By | Thomas Lübking (luebking) |
| Task ID | 79720 |
| Type | General Gripe |
| Project | Arch Linux |
| Category | Packages: Extra |
| Version | None |
| OS | All |
| Opened | 2023-09-17 14:30:01 UTC |
| Status | Assigned |
| Assignee | Bruno Pagani (ArchangeGabriel) |
Details
More a heads-up than an immediate bug.
https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/cinnamon/ hard-depends on https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/xdg-desktop-portal-xapp/ after https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/78735 was handled and I suspect that to be a mistake.
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I'm not sure that anything in cinnamon actually requires xdg-portal at all, xdg-desktop-portal-xapp is the cinnamon-specific xdg-desktop-portal-impl
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I very much doubt that cinnamon depends on xdg-desktop-portal-xapp specifically, that's antithetical to the entire xdg-desktop-portal concept.
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The referenced https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon/blob/5.8.0/debian/control#L113 is maybe not unbiased, https://packages.debian.org/experimental/cinnamon recommends the package (what makes sense) and does not depend on xdg-desktop-portal-impl at all.
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The recent¹ and possibly ongoing² xdg-desktop-portal-gnome situation has illustrated that a single bogus xdg-desktop-portal-impl can throw a wrench into the system.
Status quo, should xdg-desktop-portal-xapp pull a gnome, the cinnamon users will face three undesirable options:
- wait half a minute for every firefox (as most prominent client) start
- replace the desktop environment / remove cinnamon
- manually override the package dependencies
The suggestion would be to turn xdg-desktop-portal-xapp into an optional dependency of cinnamon (for cinnamon-flavored xdg-desktop-portal support), afaict the closest to the debian condition.
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285590 (there're more threads, but that's the meetoo one) [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2119728#p2119728