The Pop_os team accepted that behaviour (installing steam uninstalls the DE) as a bug and it was fixed subsequently.
They also fixed the whole thing with the error message to make it more difficult to accidentally delete critical system components by installing software entirely unrelated to said system component.
@squaresinger but it stable trying remove unrelated software when installing steam or 32-bit software. Installing steam caused DE removal even more then ten years ago
This.
The Pop_os team accepted that behaviour (installing steam uninstalls the DE) as a bug and it was fixed subsequently.
They also fixed the whole thing with the error message to make it more difficult to accidentally delete critical system components by installing software entirely unrelated to said system component.
@squaresinger @boonhet typical apt…
It kinda is, isn’t it? Apt isn’t super stable.
@squaresinger but it stable trying remove unrelated software when installing steam or 32-bit software. Installing steam caused DE removal even more then ten years ago