removing wslview from Ubuntu-only computers?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Oliver Grawert wrote:
>Am Samstag, dem 01.04.2023 um 17:52 -0400 schrieb Little Girl:
>> 
>> Wait. What? Are you saying that two copies of Firefox should be
>> installed on the same machine to satisfy some needs that aren't met
>> by the enforced default Snap installation of Firefox?

>there is nothing in the firefox deb apart from some meta data and the
>maintainer scripts to i.e. set up alternatives ... 

The "firefox" deb isn't even an installation of Firefox? Why is it
still called "firefox" and not something like "firefox-metadata" or
"firefox-metadata-and-scripts" or "firefox-dependencies" or
"firefox-files-for-snap" or something more accurate?

Calling something that isn't actually Firefox "firefox" seems
misleading to me. I'm gobsmacked all over again and may need some
help getting up off of the floor. What are they thinking?

>there are apt specific things that snap can not provide to apt
>directly (some dependencies on the apt side, setting alternatives,
>some mime pieces and last but not least the upgrade managemnt for
>older installs that only had the deb installed (without the empty
>firefox deb these users would have lost their browser during releas
>upgrades))

Isn't this something that the Ubuntu team should have known when they
made the Firefox Snap a default installation?

>this is why you should make sure to keep the firefox deb installed
>alongside with the snap ...

Thank you for the information, but why am I hearing this from you and
not from the Ubuntu team? Shouldn't they be informing all of us that
our default browser installations are incomplete and that we are
required to manually supplement them with other packages that they
need to prevent them from causing issues? Better yet, shouldn't the
Ubuntu team have already solved this by giving us a simple update
that gives us what we need to run our default browser installations
without having issues like those you mention so that this conversation
shouldn't even be necessary?

I'm sorry, but I'm still reeling from this new, ugly Snap wrinkle.

And last, but not least, would installing the firefox deb alongside
the default Snap installation of Firefox prevent wslu from wanting to
install itself or is this not related to that in any way?

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.