Re: x-session-manager alternative

[Gordon Sadler <gbsadler1@ispchannel.com>]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:16:23PM -0500, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 20:07:48 +0000 (UTC),
> joeyh@debian.org (Joey Hess) said:
> 
>     > What is a poor sysadmin to do if he wants wmaker to be the
>     > default window manager, and yet also wants to have kde
>     > (well, konquorer really, but it's all more or less one
>     > package) to be installed?
> 
> That's a bug in KDE's packaging, IMHO. Konqueror shouldn't depend
> on the KDE session manager, though in fact it does.
> 
> But, the alternative can always be put into manual mode and the
> admin can do whatever he likes.

In fact konqueror does not depend on kdm

gbsadler@xxx:~$ grep-available -PX konqueror -sDepends
Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.1-20001216-0), lesstif1, libc6 (>= 2.1.97),
libjpeg62, libkonq3 (>= 4:2.1-20001213-0), libpng2, libqt2.2 (>=
2:2.2.3-0) | libqt2.2-gl (>= 2:2.2.3-0), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2, xlibs
(>= 4.0.1-11), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3), kdebase-libs (>= 4:2.1-20001216-1),
libkonq3 (>= 4:2.1-20001216-1)

gbsadler@xxx:~$ apt-cache showpkg kdm
Package: kdm

Reverse Depends:
  gdm,kdm
  task-kde,kdm
  kdewallpapers,kdm
  kdebase-doc,kdm
  kdebase,kdm
  gdm,kdm

gdm Conflicts and other packages all Suggests