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Swupd bundles comes with bloatware, add a option to exclude/cherrypick certain packages? #1177

Open GrabbenD opened 4 years ago

GrabbenD commented 4 years ago

Overview The current strategy of providing packages inside bundles is prone to create a lot of unneeded content in the system and even bloatware at times. For instance, the games bundle which is used to gather a lot of dependencies for gaming gives the user unwanted software such as games like Minetest, Flare (Action Role-Playing Game) and more.

Solution? An option for excluding packages or perhaps a way of cherry picking packages you'd like to download instead of forcing the user install the complete content of a bundle would be highly appreciated. Throwing a lot of redundant packages at the end user is the wrong direction for a Linux distribution and intrusive.

fenrus75 commented 4 years ago

recently we gained the ability to have "also-add", basically optional dependencies that you can uninstall/etc

minetest and flare in the games bundle are already that as of a week or so ago

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Overview The current strategy of providing packages inside bundles is prone to create a lot of unneeded content in the system and even bloatware at times. For instance, the games bundle which is used to gather a lot of dependencies for gaming gives the user unwanted software such as games like Minetest, Flare (Action Role-Playing Game) and more.

Solution? An option for excluding packages or perhaps a way of cherry picking packages you'd like to download instead of forcing the user install the complete content of a bundle would be highly appreciated. Throwing a lot of redundant packages at the end user is the wrong direction for a Linux distribution and intrusive.

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