Hi Jean-Philippe, On Mo 11 Mai 2015 20:33:58 CEST, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote:
Le 11/05/2015 09:37, Samuel Thibault a écrit :In Debian Jessie, no. Not adding the package means the user cannot change his passwd, network, etc through GUI. I don't know what will be with 1.10, but in stable, this package is needed.Mike Gabriel, le Mon 11 May 2015 03:27:17 +0000, a écrit :* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Once the system boots, after lightdm, I want to change password, setthe date,network, etc. through a GUI.r * What was the outcome of this action? No item appears for this. I only can use CLI tools. Fix: add mate-system-tools in installed packages.Looks to me that mate-desktop-environment should pull it instead?What's your stance on this?Furthermore, mate-system-tools will be deprecated for MATE 1.10.What replaces it? Does MATE not provide anything to accomplish those tasks?
If the package is needed:
$ sudo apt-get install mate-system-tools
The issues with mate-system-tools, I have are:
o not well tested inside Debian
o not needed on enterprise sites (they are useless with
LDAP, Kerberos, etc.).
So what you can convince me of is adding mate-system-tools to
Suggests: in mate-desktop-environment-extras, but that does not make a
change for the installation procedure and won't be much appreciated by
the Debian release team either, I guess.
I'd say, we should compensate this via documentation, how about helping out with improving [1] and mentioning mate-system-tools there?
light+love, Mike [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Mate -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb
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