Bug#889912: Please do not force chrome-gnome-shell / browser integration
Enrico Zini
enrico at debian.org
Thu Feb 8 17:12:07 UTC 2018
Package: gnome-core
Version: 1:3.22+8
Severity: normal
Hello,
gnome-shell currently encourages users to download extensions off the
internet, and forces a chromium plugin, always enabled by system-wide
/etc/chromium policy, to expose extension information to
extensions.gnome.org. It also exposes a firefox plugin, which I have not
investigated.
Such browser integration is a feature that I do not trust, I do not
need, and I do not want.
Finding myself unable to remove chrome-gnome-shell without breaking
gnome dependencies, I resorted to writing an equivs replacement for
chrome-gnome-shell[1], and my desktop is running perfectly, except that
if I go to extensions.gnome.org I get a message inviting me to install
gnome shell integration, which is appropriate.
That the equivs package works so well, makes a pretty good case to me
that the chrome-gnome-shell should be brought in by a Recommends: rather
than a Depends:
Enrico
[1] http://www.enricozini.org/blog/2018/debian/gnome-without-chrome-gnome-shell/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-core depends on:
ii adwaita-icon-theme 3.26.1-3
ii at-spi2-core 2.26.2-2
ii baobab 3.26.1-2
ii caribou 0.4.21-4
ii chromium 62.0.3202.89-1
ii contain-gnome-shell [chrome-gnome-shell] 1.0
ii dconf-cli 0.26.1-3
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.26.1-3
ii eog 3.26.2-3
ii evince 3.26.0-3
ii evolution-data-server 3.26.3-4
ii firefox-esr 52.6.0esr-2
ii fonts-cantarell 0.0.25-4
ii gdm3 3.26.2.1-3
ii gedit 3.22.1-3
ii gkbd-capplet 3.26.0-2
ii glib-networking 2.54.1-2
ii gnome-backgrounds 3.26.2-2
ii gnome-bluetooth 3.26.1-2
ii gnome-calculator 3.26.0-3+b1
ii gnome-characters 3.26.2-2
ii gnome-contacts 3.26.1-1
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-1
ii gnome-disk-utility 3.26.2-2
ii gnome-font-viewer 3.26.0-2
ii gnome-keyring 3.20.1-2
ii gnome-logs 3.26.2-2
ii gnome-menus 3.13.3-11
ii gnome-online-accounts 3.26.2-1
ii gnome-online-miners 3.26.0-2
ii gnome-session 3.26.1-2
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.26.2-1
ii gnome-shell 3.26.2-4
ii gnome-shell-extensions 3.26.2-3
ii gnome-software 3.26.5-1
ii gnome-sushi 3.24.0-3
ii gnome-system-monitor 3.26.0-3
ii gnome-terminal 3.26.2-3
ii gnome-themes-standard 3.22.3-4
ii gnome-user-docs 3.26.2.1-1
ii gnome-user-share 3.18.3-3
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.24.1-2
ii gstreamer1.0-packagekit 1.1.7-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.12.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.12.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.12.4-1
ii gvfs-backends 1.34.1-2
ii gvfs-bin 1.34.1-2
ii gvfs-fuse 1.34.1-2
ii libatk-adaptor 2.26.1-1
ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-6
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.20.1-2
ii libproxy1-plugin-gsettings 0.4.14-4
ii nautilus 3.26.2-2
ii pulseaudio 11.1-4
ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-2
ii system-config-printer-common 1.5.9-3
ii system-config-printer-udev 1.5.9-3
ii totem 3.26.0-3
ii tracker 2.0.2-1
ii vino 3.22.0-2
ii yelp 3.26.0-2
ii zenity 3.26.0-2
Versions of packages gnome-core recommends:
ii anacron 2.3-24
ii libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager 0.4.14-4
ii network-manager-gnome 1.8.10-2
Versions of packages gnome-core suggests:
ii gnome 1:3.22+8
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