Cannot Install Dunst on Regolith 3 with Sway due to Dependency Conflicts with Regolith-rofication in Ubuntu 22.04

[rmasad]

Environment:

• Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04
• Regolith Version: 3.0
• Sway Version: 1.7
• Dunst Version: 1.5.0 (Attempted to Install)
• Regolith-rofication Version: 1.5.0 (Installed)

Description: I encountered an issue while attempting to install Dunst for notifications on a Regolith 3 environment with the Sway window manager in Ubuntu 22.04. The installation fails due to dependency conflicts with regolith-rofication, preventing users from using Dunst as their preferred notification service.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Install Ubuntu 22.04.
2. Install and set up Regolith 3 to use the Sway window manager.
3. Attempt to install Dunst using sudo apt install dunst.
4. Observe that the installation fails and reports dependency conflicts with regolith-rofication.

[mpareja]

@rmasad Have you tried disabling rofication when installing? I'm not using sway, but here's my install command line:

sudo apt install regolith-desktop regolith-session-flashback regolith-rofication-

Notice the trailing minus sign after regolith-rofication.

[rmasad]

regolith-wm-rofication-ilia depends on regolith-rofication, and regolith-sway-root-config depends on regolith-wm-rofication-ilia.

[mpareja]

Okay, cool, regolith-sway-root-config depending on regolith-wm-rofication-ilia sounds like a bug.

[davewongillies]

Probably is related to this https://github.com/regolith-linux/regolith-wm-config/pull/10

[mpareja]

From what I can tell, this is still an issue. It's a blocker to my adoption of Sway for Regolith.

[mpareja]

I believe this issue can be closed. I had no issue installing sway without rofication:

sudo apt install regolith-desktop regolith-session-sway regolith-look-nord regolith-rofication-

Can you confirm @rmasad?

[rmasad]

regolith-wm-rofication-ilia still depends of regolith-rofication and regolith-sway-root-config depends of regolith-wm-rofication-ilia

[mpareja]

Maybe this is still a problem on the 22.04 repositories? I'm on Ubuntu Mantic and it looks good here.

Only a few packages depend on regolith-wm-rofication-ilia. And the rofi-agnostic ones (the bottom three below) all have it listed as recommended rather than required.

$ apt-cache rdepends regolith-wm-rofication-ilia
regolith-wm-rofication-ilia
Reverse Depends:
  regolith-i3-rofication
  regolith-wm-config
  regolith-session-sway
  regolith-session-flashback

[rmasad]

I just upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 and it still needs the same dependency

[rmasad]

I needed to update the repositories. Now it was installed without uninstalling dnust.