[Bug 1062045] [NEW] usb-creator-gtk pulls in Unity and Compiz on Xubuntu (and probably Kubuntu, Lubuntu etc. as well)

[Kevin Keijzer]

Public bug reported:

Today, my update manager on Xubuntu 12.10 wanted to pull in Unity and
Compiz. I found out that it was caused by usb-creator-gtk's dependency
on gir1.2-unity-5.0, which apparently now depends on libunity9, which in
its turn depends on unity-common, causing Compiz and Metacity to be
pulled in.

Anyway, for all Ubuntu derivatives, this is incredibly annoying. If
possible, the dependency on gir1.2-unity-5.0 should be removed, or at
least downgraded to a suggestion, to avoid such behaviour in the future.
And, more importantly, to avoid this hitting 12.04 LTS as well. For now,
I have purged usb-creator-common and usb-creator-gtk and use Unetbootin
in its place. I'd rather have some Qt libs than half of GNOME and Unity
installed.


ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct  5 08:21:09 2012
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: usb-creator-gtk (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.26-generic 3.5.5
SourcePackage: usb-creator
Tags:  quantal
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: usb-creator (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: compiz dependency gnome3 quantal unity usb-creator-gtk

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Title:
  usb-creator-gtk pulls in Unity and Compiz on Xubuntu (and probably
  Kubuntu, Lubuntu etc. as well)

Status in “usb-creator” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Today, my update manager on Xubuntu 12.10 wanted to pull in Unity and
  Compiz. I found out that it was caused by usb-creator-gtk's dependency
  on gir1.2-unity-5.0, which apparently now depends on libunity9, which
  in its turn depends on unity-common, causing Compiz and Metacity to be
  pulled in.

  Anyway, for all Ubuntu derivatives, this is incredibly annoying. If
  possible, the dependency on gir1.2-unity-5.0 should be removed, or at
  least downgraded to a suggestion, to avoid such behaviour in the
  future. And, more importantly, to avoid this hitting 12.04 LTS as
  well. For now, I have purged usb-creator-common and usb-creator-gtk
  and use Unetbootin in its place. I'd rather have some Qt libs than
  half of GNOME and Unity installed.

  
  ProblemType: Bug
  ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Oct  5 08:21:09 2012
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
  Package: usb-creator-gtk (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.26-generic 3.5.5
  SourcePackage: usb-creator
  Tags:  quantal
  Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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