HP Z8 G5 linux-oem-22.04c 6.1.0-1012/29 kernel, nvidia-drm and aptitude behaviour.

[Guillaume Yziquel]

Hi again.

Le 13 févr. 2024 à 23:51, Guillaume Yziquel via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> a écrit :Hi.
> 
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> 1. After having installed aptitude, which I believe behaves a bit differently
> or more agressively than apt-get when it comes to the packages it wants to
> remove, it wants to remove the following packages:
> 
> - dmraid
> - gir1.2-timezonemap-1.0
> - gir1.2-xkl-1.0
> - keyutils
> - kpartx
> - kpartx-boot
> - libdebian-installer4
> - libdmraid1.0.0.rc16
> - libtimezonemap-data
> - libtimezonemap1
> - nvidia-firmware-535-535.113.01
> - python3-icu
> - python3-pam
> - rdate
> 
> I believe removing these packages is a Bad Idea™.

In fact, it doesn't seem to be such a bad idea. These packages seem to be mostly leftovers from a ubiquity like installation on the HP system. The only exception is nvidia-firmware, which seems to have installed a new package following a kernel upgrade.

I'm a bit conflicted as to how these package upgrades are handled in the scope of the various OEM projects by Ubuntu. Documentation is extremely scarce for what the stella and jiyai projects are doing when it comes to tweaking of apt updates and upgrades.

However, it doesn't seem such a bad idea to remove these packages. Will try.

Guillaume Yziquel.