Bug#683345: task-lxde-desktop: please don't force the gdm3 dependency
Package: task-lxde-desktop
Version: 3.12
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
please don't force the gdm3 dependency;
I use LightDM, so I have tried to check what's pulled by installing 'gdm3', and it's 30 packages (see the long text below);
instead of that, I suggest you to make it like this:
Depends: gdm3 | lightdm
(because of previous versions' dependency on 'xdm', 'gdm3 | x-display-manager' isn't a very good option).
BTW, I've previously written that in comments to the "gdm3 enforcing request" bug #680519:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680519#64
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680519#71
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# apt-get install gdm3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
app-install-data at-spi dconf-tools gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2-plugins libatspi1.0-0
libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 libgail-common libglib2.0-bin
libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd7 libmetacity-private0a libpackagekit-glib2-14
libsystemd-daemon0 libwacom-common libwacom2 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0
metacity metacity-common pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils
python-aptdaemon.pkcompat python-packagekit rtkit xserver-xephyr
Suggested packages:
gnome-mag gnome-orca gok gnome-shell gnome-screensaver gnome-control-center
xdg-user-dirs pavumeter pavucontrol paman paprefs
Recommended packages:
packagekit-system-interface packagekit
The following NEW packages will be installed:
app-install-data at-spi dconf-tools gdm3 gnome-session-bin
gnome-settings-daemon gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2-plugins
libatspi1.0-0 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 libgail-common
libglib2.0-bin libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd7 libmetacity-private0a
libpackagekit-glib2-14 libsystemd-daemon0 libwacom-common libwacom2
libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 metacity metacity-common pulseaudio
pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python-aptdaemon.pkcompat
python-packagekit rtkit xserver-xephyr
0 upgraded, 30 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 22.3 MB/23.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 57.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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