• zewm@lemmy.world
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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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        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.