Bug#683345: task-lxde-desktop: please don't force the gdm3 dependency

[Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca>]

On 07/30/2012 08:19 PM, Bob Bib wrote:
> please don't force the gdm3 dependency;

I have had some discussion this morning with the Debian lxde maintainers and we agree the gdm3
dependency explosion (a fairly recent thing, looking at gdm3's Debian changelog) renders it much
less desirable to use in task-lxde-desktop than before, so we're looking at the alternatives.

> 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).

While my brief testing of lightdm indicates it is a possible candidate, but there is also slim to
consider. We're considering the merits of each before requesting a change to task-lxde-desktop.

Thanks,
Ben