Relax, you won't experience Gnomification. It will only install stuff you won't even see, but are necessary for it to work, your system will remain freshly Minted and not Gnomed.
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You are installing a Flatpak. That program is coded using GDK or the gnome development kit. Flatpak is a self contained environment that is separate from your normal desktop environment. Those updates are required by that particular program and it will only interact with that program.
TLDR; this won’t make your desktop into gnome. It’s just a back end update for your Flatpak.
it's used as a sort of runtime that executes programs made for gnome, on environments that are not gnome.
i'm full of kde stuff on my gnome desktop, no worries.
Basically, yeah.
Well I mean you're already GNOMED since MATE is GNOME 2 ;)
The software manager they're using already looks like GNOME 3+
It already is GNOMEd, this is just flatpak dependencies
No, the Gnome desktop needs a lot more packages. These are just basic packages that are required as a dependency for a Gnome application you've installed.
A lot of flatpak stuff requires pieces of the Gnome environment, but that doesn't mean its installing the Gnome DE to your machine if that's what you mean.
Are you asking if installing them will add the Gnome desktop environment?
Yes, i've seen on Reddit that people accidently do this, and I don't want to be one of those people :)
In that case, no. Like the other responder said, those are just some dependency packages.
Lots of software uses packages made by Gnome. These are simply dependencies for other software you're installing.
"Accidentally" install Gnome?
It's a thing where the Gnome desktop is installed as a dependency and shows up on the next boot: https://www.reddit.com/r/gotgnomed
The entire gnome DE as a dependency? I have no idea. What kind of software is doing that aside from the gnome desktop anyway?
It was gnome-shell extensions pulling in gnome desktop which kinda makes sense.
Yep. It's real, scores of noobs on the reddit subs sobbing about.
I believe protonvpn install was the usual culprit. I won't link to reddit but the /r/linuxmint sub has many posts
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=446923
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/yes-getting-gnomed-is-a-thing