[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#764237: Needlessly "Depends" on lightdm or gdm3
Thibaut Paumard
thibaut at debian.org
Mon Oct 6 15:26:43 UTC 2014
Package: cinnamon-core
Version: 2.2.3
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
cinnamon-core depends on ligthdm | gdm3, but it can be used without any of the two. I use it without a DM at all (using the nodm package, but one could also simply use startx), and there are more DMs in Debian than those two. I had to use equivs to get rid of lightdm.
In my opinion, this dependency should read:
Recommends: lightdm | x-display-manager
This would still (by default) ensure that a DM is installed, picking lightdm if possible, without pushing a new DM on a machine already set-up to use kdm. This also allows users to bypass this recommendation altogether.
Kind regards, thibaut.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cinnamon-core depends on:
ii cinnamon 2.2.16-1
ii cinnamon-control-center 2.2.11-3
ii cinnamon-screensaver 2.2.4-5+b1
ii cinnamon-session 2.2.2-3+b1
ii cinnamon-settings-daemon 2.2.4.repack-5+b1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.22.0-1
ii desktop-base 7.0.3
ii lightdm 1:0-0
ii muffin 2.2.6-3
ii nemo 2.2.4-2
Versions of packages cinnamon-core recommends:
ii cinnamon-l10n 2.2.4-1
ii gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1
ii gnome-themes-standard 3.12.0-1
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1
Versions of packages cinnamon-core suggests:
pn cinnamon-desktop-environment <none>
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