[Pkg-xfce-devel] Why does xfswitch-plugin depend on so many (Gnome) packages?

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun., 2012-10-01 at 22:56 +0200, Magnus Sandberg wrote:
> ----- On 1st of October 2012, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote; -----
> 
> > On lun., 2012-10-01 at 22:46 +0200, Magnus Sandberg wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Yves-Alexis,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for you quick responce.
> > > 
> > > My old machine is running Squeeze with Gnome. I thought/hoped that the
> > > user switcher only brought up the login screen, not that GDM did the
> > > actual switchging.
> > > 
> > > So if I understand you correctly, lightdm (or some other display
> > > manager) has to have the user switching functionallity to get rid of
> > > GDM? 
> >
> > No. There's a gross hack in lightdm upstream to provide the relevant
> > script, but it's not enabled in Debian package (exactly because it's a
> > gross hack).
> 
> So if I stay tuned until Wheezy is released as stable, I can then install 
> xfswitch-plugin without gdm3 dependency :-)

? What do you mean.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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