Description of problem: Seems like gnome-directory-thumbnailer is considered as an essential dependency for the gnome desktop and can't be removed without removing gnome-shell itself. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Yes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to remove gnome-directory-thumbnailer either with GUI or command line 2. Mageia needs to remove dozens of packages 3.
Assignee: bugsquad => gnome
There's nothing in this report that explains what you're after? What's the bug? Where is it stated that this should not be essential?
CC: (none) => olav
Based on the French forum post [0] where I asked Bob to file a bug report, I understand that he'd like to get thumbnails for files but not for directories; but apparently the configuration options allow to enable all thumbnails (files + directories) or disable them all. It is also claimed that in other distros (Fedora, Ubuntu) the directories are not thumbnailed, but the files are, which hints that gnome-directory-thumbnailer would be missing/optional there. All in all I think it should reported upstream if the config option don't allow to thumbnail files while keeping plain directories with gnome-directory-thumbnailer installed - but in the meantime making the package optional seems like a working solution. [0] https://www.mageialinux-online.org/forum/topic-23795+comment-supprimer-gnome-directory-thumbnailere.php
Seems this was solved ages ago. I can easily remove it nowadays. I cannot figure out what caused it to be required though.
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED