On 2021-03-14 at 18:23:40, Christian Strasser wrote: > Hello all, > > I installed Git yesterday on my system. For that I used “sudo apt-get > install git-all”. During the installation a lot of very important > packages got removed! It was horrible, and I couldn’t use my gnome > desktop environment at all! A lot off dependencies got lost! > Fortunately, I could save my system through read out the information > about removed packages from the apt history. > > Today I totally removed git and tried to install everything again with > the same instruction. The same misbehavior did happen! This is best reported to Debian because it's a packaging problem, but I'll tell you what's happening. By default, Debian installs recommends. When you specified git-all, you also asked to install git-daemon-run or git-daemon-sysvinit, and the former is the preferred option. So that causes systemd to be uninstalled and sysvinit to replace it instead, and because GNOME on Debian is configured to require systemd and not to work with sysvinit, GNOME gets removed. There are a couple problems here. First, you don't want to install git-all as a package because it has this behavior, and git-all should not be configured such that installing it causes your init system to be changed. That is a serious packaging problem. Second, GNOME should gracefully work with whatever init system is on the system, so that users can pick the one that's right for them. Non-Linux systems don't even have systemd, so GNOME should be appropriately packaged so it doesn't have this problem. None of this has anything to do with Git the project, which provides source tarballs only and relies on distributors to build binary packages. All of these are Debian packaging problems and should be reported in a series of bugs to Debian (usually via reportbug). In the meantime, you should install the git and git-man packages if you want to use core Git, and optionally git-email, git-svn, or git-cvs if you want various other parts. You don't really want to run git-daemon outside of a controlled environment because the Git protocol provides no authentication or encryption and you shouldn't expose such services publicly. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Houston, Texas, US
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