4mo ago

Latest image of u-blue has removed firefox, several gnome support packages and some pipewire and gstreamer packages

Removed: firefox-136.0.1-1.fc41.x86_64 firefox-langpacks-136.0.1-1.fc41.x86_64 freerdp-libs-2:3.12.0-1.fc41.x86_64 gnome-bluetooth-1:47.1-1.fc41.x86_64 gnome-browser-connector-42.1-8.fc41.x86_64 gnome-classic-session-47.4-2.fc41.noarch gnome-initial-setup-47.2-1.fc41.x86_64 gnome-remote-desktop-47.3-1.fc41.x86_64 gnome-shell-extension-apps-menu-47.4-2.fc41.noarch gnome-shell-extension-background-logo-47.0-1.fc41.noarch gnome-shell-extension-common-47.4-2.fc41.noarch gnome-shell-extension-launch-new-instance-47.4-2.fc41.noarch gnome-shell-extension-places-menu-47.4-2.fc41.noarch gnome-shell-extension-window-list-47.4-2.fc41.noarch gstreamer1-plugin-libav-1.24.11-1.fc41.x86_64 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-1.24.11-1.fc41.x86_64 pipewire-utils-1.2.7-7.fc41.x86_64 uresourced-0.5.4-2.fc41.x86_64

The latest build of u-blue:main has removed these packages. Is anybody also experiencing this? I could find no information regarding this on the discourse forum.

Edit : the issue has been resolved in the next build image. It was a small error that came up due to shifting to dnf5. Thanks for to maintainers for doing all the hardwark

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Do an update, this was an error due to moving over to dnf5.
- Thanks and thanks for all the hardwork on universal blue.
Didn't know what uBlue was, so here: https://universal-blue.org/
"The Universal Blue project builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using bootc. That's nerdspeak for the ultimate Linux client: the reliability of a Chromebook, but with the flexibility and power of a traditional Linux desktop.
These images represent what's possible when a community focuses on sharing best practices via automation and collaboration. One common language between dev and ops, and it's finally come to the desktop.
We also provide tools for users to build their own image using our templates and processes, which can be used to ship custom configurations to all of your machines, or finally make the Linux distribution you've long wished for, but never had the tools to create.
At long last, we've ascended."
- Ublue Is the base of the better known Bazzite distro, I use it on my desktop, and Aurora on my laptop.
- Basically nixOS but useful.
- You can make custom images of this with some software called BlueBuild. I base mine off of the SecureBlue project then tweak it for my needs
I don't know the reasoning, but since the uBlue main image is meant to be a sort of base template (iirc), my guess is there was a decision to downstream all of those additions, to allow child distributions to improve the build process and make their own opinionated changes.
You might try asking on the uBlue discord.
That's long overdue. Many removed it in favor of flatpaks. There were still some minor issues with flatpak. I guess those are resolved now
I wish they would. I didn't switch to Linux to not have control over my PC.

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