Hello,
On Sat 29 Jan 2022 at 08:12PM GMT, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 4.6.0.1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> GNOME's gdm3 and KDE's sddm both enumerate possible Wayland sessions in
> /usr/{,local/}share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop and make them available
> as desktop sessions that users can choose, in addition to listing the
> X11 sessions that they traditionally did.
>
> At the moment, installing gdm3 pulls in either gnome-session (a minimal
> GNOME desktop), or some sort of X11 thing (usually a session manager,
> but sometimes a window manager or an xterm), but it should ideally
> be possible to install gdm3 as a login prompt from which to launch a
> non-GNOME Wayland session like weston or sway.
>
> I propose this entry for virtual-package-names-list.yaml:
>
> - name: wayland-session
> description: a Wayland desktop session (/usr/share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop)
>
> According to `apt-file search`, it should initially be provided by these:
>
> gnome-session: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gnome.desktop
> phosh: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/phosh.desktop
> plasma-workspace-wayland: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasmawayland.desktop
> sway: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop
> weston: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/weston.desktop
>
> and perhaps also (I don't know how practical this one is for actual use):
>
> mir-demos: /usr/share/wayland-sessions/mir-shell.desktop
Seems fine. Just to confirm, the primary use case is so that if a
package providing wayland-session is installed, a display manager like
gdm3 won't try to install GNOME?
--
Sean Whitton
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