tag 401866 + wontfix severity 401866 + wishlist thanks On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:24:16AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Package: kdebase > Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-2 > Severity: minor > > kdebase should provide the "base components from the official KDE > release", which include kdm. kdebase should therefore depend on kdm > rather than only recommending it. this was the case, once upon a time, though the login manager and the desktop environment are hardly connected, and kde does not needs kdm at all to work properly. You will just have *some* features of it removed (aka the switch user & Co.), and I'm not even 100% sure, as I'm told it also works then kde is fired from gdm. There is absolutely no point to have 2 login managers installed in the same machine, so the best we could do is depeding upon: kdm | x-login-manager so that a guy that already has xdm/gdm/wdm/... installed may chose not to have kdm installed. But such a virtual package does not exists, so we're stuck, and I'm even not sure that would be a good solution anyway. so in 2 words like in 100, we won't do that because it barely affects kde desktop as a whole, but could drag useless dependencies and configuration headaches for sysadmins that just want their own login manager. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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