Re: gambas3.desktop install idea to detect installed toolkits...

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 05/11/2025 à 18:49, gbWilly a écrit :
> On Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 at 18:34, Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Le 05/11/2025 à 17:54, gbWilly a écrit :
> > I don't know what must be clarified exactly.
>
> THESE (=> gambas3-ide gambas3-gb-{qt5,qt6,gtk3}-webview) ARE installed (at minimum gtk3 AND one of QT5 or QT6 or both depending on the availability in the distro) WHEN installing gambas3!!
> Maybe that needs to be clarified.
>
>
> > I just said that the script that generates 'gambas3.desktop' should
> > logically be run each time a package that impacts it (gambas3-ide,
> > gambas3-gb-{qt5,qt6,gtk3}-webview) is installed or removed.
> >
> > Is it possible?
>
>
> IF any of THESE (=> gambas3-ide gambas3-gb-{qt5,qt6,gtk3}-webview)) is removed gambas3 IS removed AND thus gambas3.desktop IS ALSO REMOVED!!
> So, why run the script, if no more gambas3.desktop present on the system?

Because this is not what is told in the package. I think the problem 
comes from the fact that 'apt' does not handle packages alternatives 
correctly.

When it is written in the 'gambas3-gb-gui' package dependencies that:

Depends: gambas3-gb-gtk | gambas3-gb-gtk3  gambas3-gb-qt5 | gambas3-gb-qt6

It should mean that 'gambas3-gb-gui' depends on at least one of these 
packages, and 'apt' should normally ask the user which one to install.

And as 'gambas3-ide' depends on 'gambas3-gb-gui', it should ask the same 
question when installing 'gambas3-ide'.

Then are you telling me that this is not the case, that 'apt' replaces 
the alternatives by hard dependencies?

--
Benoît Minisini.