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

[Magnus Sandberg]

----- On 1st of October 2012, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote; -----

> 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.

"Stay tuned" - like in continue watching the TW show.
If I wait long enough the gross hack will no longer be a gross hack and 
intead the script will be enabled and then the depenceny for gdm3 may be 
gone.

Regards,

// Mem