[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#506406: xfce4: apt bug causes gdm to pull in unneeded/unwanted gnome dependencies
- Subject: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#506406: xfce4: apt bug causes gdm to pull in unneeded/unwanted gnome dependencies
- From: corsac at debian.org (Yves-Alexis Perez)
- Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:08:01 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 1231157281.30530.6.camel@miria>
- In-reply-to: <200901051250.58179.elendil@planet.nl>
- References: <200901051250.58179.elendil@planet.nl>
On lun, 2009-01-05 at 12:50 +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > Ok it seems that adding xfce4-session before gdm in the list enables
> > apt-get and aptitude to satisfy the dependency on x-session-manager.
>
> Unfortunately this cannot be fixed in tasksel this way. The order in which
> packages are actually installed is not determined by the order in which
> they are listed in tasksel.
>
> Reason is that tasksel makes use of the Task: fields in the Packages file,
> not the task files included in tasksel itself (which, simplified, are
> only used to update the Packages file).
Ha, crap. And I guess the Task: order isn't reliable?
>
> Would replacing gdm by xdm solve the problem (see #510422)?
Well, I guess so. I'd like some comments from other pkg-xfce team
members, but if it's not too late, that would be ok. I tend to prefer
slim over xdm but it doesn't seem really maintained upstream and has
some drawbacks which make it not suitable for a default install.
I didn't use xdm since quite some time, but does it uses a desktop-base
theme by default, these days?
Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis
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