libnotify4 on focal requires gnome-shell?

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 05:09:52PM +0000, Justin Lloyd wrote:
> That's very useful, thanks! Since I manage my systems with Salt, I'll
> need to figure out the best way to update my collectd formula for
> focal to skip the recommendations but then add back in the stuff that
> I will need that otherwise won't get installed, so a bit of iterative
> manual package installing until everything is working as needed.

I also noticed that the package relationship here is actually:

  Recommends: gnome-shell | notification-daemon

So another option you have is to satisfy the "notification-daemon"
alternative there, arranging for that either to be installed beforehand
or to appear on the same apt command line.  That can either be the real
"notification-daemon" package itself, or any of "dunst",
"lxqt-notificationd", "mate-notification-daemon", "notify-osd", or
"xfce4-notifyd", all of which declare "Provides: notification-daemon".

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]