Bug#1066030: Please move packagekit plugin to Recommends

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 7:54 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> Would it be possible to move
>
> /usr/lib/*/gnome-software/plugins-20/libgs_plugin_packagekit.so
>
> and related files to a separate package and make it a Recommends rather
> than a dependency?
>
> This would allow to use gnome-software without package kit for
> e.g. managing flatpaks only.
>
> This is useful on device with restricted resources like phones where the
> packagekit backend takes lots of RAM and slows down initial app startup
> although it's often not used since people use `apt` for the OS side
> packages.

I have a WIP split of the GNOME Software packaging because other
people have been asking for this too. I need to clean it up just a bit
and make a merge proposal for some people to check.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha