elementary / elementary/settings-system

Rethinking the grouping of subpackages in AppCenter

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Description

It's necessary to think of a smarter way to group packages in AppCenter.

It's currently as follows:

If you do not want to perform the LibreOffice update, for example.

![captura de tela de 2018-06-30 23 35 30](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11943860/42130566-3b8ffc26-7cbf-11e8-9f95-b9fa92490e66.png)

But you want to do other system updates

![captura de tela de 2018-06-30 23 36 05](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11943860/42130571-723ac4cc-7cbf-11e8-8027-3d092eb0da8f.png)

LibreOffice sub-packages will try to be updated and this is not what you want.

![captura de tela de 2018-06-30 23 36 21](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/11943860/42130592-ca45e4d0-7cbf-11e8-8614-96115bd02838.png)

A solution should be considered in which subpackages belong only to the external package.

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