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bonkermcn

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Registered: 2026-03-17

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Gnome Extensions

Why is this hard coded into the gnome-shell package? Was this really necessary. Kinda like when I install Firefox, and I get a bunch of useless crap that gets installed along side it. What are you guys thinking??

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Gnome Extensions

If you're not just drunk-ranting, please read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Extensions are an intrinsic part of gnome, gnome-shell comes w/ some tools to manage them but no actual extensions are packaged w/ gnome-shell, so it's not clear what you're even talking about.

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bonkermcn

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Registered: 2026-03-17

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Re: Gnome Extensions

If you're not just drunk-ranting, please read https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

Extensions are an intrinsic part of gnome, gnome-shell comes w/ some tools to manage them but no actual extensions are packaged w/ gnome-shell, so it's not clear what you're even talking about.

Thanks for missing the point. It’s about installing unnecessary bloat, which arch has been doing more and more lately. The extensions app is only intrinsic if you use it, otherwise it’s just more garbage in the way.

And I’m not drunk posting, don’t be a douche.

seth

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Re: Gnome Extensions

This has absolutely nothing to do w/ archlinux being bloated, https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd6 … l/filelist
If you don't want that 96kB binary you can add it to NoExtract

Using gnome and complaining about bloat is something special, but I guess you're just trolling anyway.

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bonkermcn

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Registered: 2026-03-17

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Re: Gnome Extensions

This has absolutely nothing to do w/ archlinux being bloated, https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd6 … l/filelist
If you don't want that 96kB binary you can add it to NoExtract

Using gnome and complaining about bloat is something special, but I guess you're just trolling anyway.

Yeah, totally trolling. Speaking of which, go back under your own bridge

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,076

Re: Gnome Extensions

Gnome ships it in the gnome shell package so Arch ships it in the gnome shell package. There's nothing inherently special about this and how this has always worked, what exactly do you expect Arch to do?