Why is "libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop" part of non-Unity flavors?

I noticed an update for libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop. To find out what that is, I ran apt-cache show libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop and saw this, in part:

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[10:44 AM] ~ $ apt-cache show libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop
Package: libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 52
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: all
Source: libunity
Version: 7.1.2+13.10.20131010-0ubuntu2
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Description-en: binding to get places into the launcher - desktop def file
 libunity is a shared library to be able to interact with the launcher
 and add places in Unity environment.
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 This package contains default scopes definition for the destkop.
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Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop

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Why does Lubuntu (and probably Xubuntu) carry this package?

Also posted here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/36219...avors-in-13-10

Found out this was installed on my system too, Ubuntu Server with X and i3-wm. I don't have any of the *buntu-desktop packages installed, and I'm not sure if it was installed as a dependency of another package. I removed it (and libunity9 too) without incident.

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Originally Posted by oldos2er

Found out this was installed on my system too, Ubuntu Server with X and i3-wm. I don't have any of the *buntu-desktop packages installed, and I'm not sure if it was installed as a dependency of another package. I removed it (and libunity9 too) without incident.

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Because of the part in bold, I search /var/log/apt/history.log for "unity" and found:

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gir1.2-unity-5.0, GObject introspection data for the Unity library
libunity-protocol-private0, binding to get places into the launcher - private library
libunity-scopes-json-def-desktop, binding to get places into the launcher - desktop def file
libunity9, binding to get places into the launcher - shared library

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As for removing them, as a desktop user, I'll wait on that. For example, there's psensor (which I no longer use):
apt-cache showpkg libunity9 has psensor as a reverse depend and
apt-cache shopkg psensor has libunity9 listed as a dependency.

I'll check out the others later but my suspicion, based on just one instance, is that the aim of integrating (with Unity) maybe the reason why cross-platform apps list these unity-related packages. But other quite common packages have libunity9 as their dependency.