[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#506406: xfce4: apt bug causes gdm to pull in unneeded/unwanted gnome dependencies
On Mon, 5 Jan 2009 13:31:59 +0100
Frans Pop <elendil at planet.nl> wrote:
>
> > > Would replacing gdm by xdm solve the problem (see #510422)?
> >
> > Well, I guess so.
>
> Could you (or someone else from the desktop teams) test this?
I'm just the user who reported the bug (though I hope at some point to
become a DD), and I have tested with a custom task (below). I did a
standard install, modified the task file and did
tasksel -t install xfce-desktop
that didn't work (gnome-desktop was selected) and I discovered I also
had to manually edit tasksel/desktop in the debconf settings so that
the desktop was xfce-xdm instead of gnome - this should happen via
dpkg-reconfigure IMO.
That fixed the aptitude line and I did
tasksel install xfce-desktop but that doesn't seem to work because gdm
was pulled in. I finally created another tasked that didn't enhance
desktop (below) and it and installed xdm not gdm, and didn't pull in
gnome stuff
On another note, I'd like to suggest using system-config-printer
instead of foomatic-gui ; I'm not sure foomatic-gui is maintained
anymore and system-config-printer is the recommended replacement in any
event.
> > I'd like some comments from other pkg-xfce team
> > members, but if it's not too late, that would be ok.
>
> There is a slight risk of incompatibility with tasksel.
>
> > I didn't use xdm since quite some time, but does it uses a
> > desktop-base theme by default, these days?
No it doesn't.
>
> No idea. You are supposed to be the desktop people here...
>
Task: xfce-desktop
Section: user
Relevance: 8
Description: Xfce desktop environment with xdm
This task provides basic "desktop" software using the Xfce desktop
environment but uses XDM instead of GDM
Key:
xfce4
xdm
Enhances: desktop
Packages: list
foomatic-gui
mousepad
openoffice.org-gtk
orage
xfce4
xfce4-goodies
xfce4-mixer
xfce4-terminal
xfmedia
xfprint4
xsane
Test-preferred-desktop: xfce
#######
Task #2
#######
Task: xfce-xdm
Section: user
Description: Xfce desktop environment with xdm
This task provides basic "desktop" software using the Xfce desktop
environment but uses XDM instead of GDM
Key:
xfce4
xdm
Packages: list
foomatic-gui
mousepad
openoffice.org-gtk
orage
xfce4
xfce4-goodies
xfce4-mixer
xfce4-terminal
xfmedia
xfprint4
xsane
alsa-base
alsa-utils
anacron
avahi-daemon
cpufrequtils
cupsys
cupsys-bsd
cupsys-client
cupsys-driver-gutenprint
desktop-base
eject
foo2zjs
foomatic-filters-ppds
gimp
hp-ppd
hpijs
hplip
iceweasel
kerneloops
libgl1-mesa-dri
libnss-mdns
menu
myspell-en-us
openoffice.org
openoffice.org-gcj
openoffice.org-help-en-us
openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us
printconf
swfdec-mozilla
twm
vbetool
xdg-utils
xorg
xserver-xorg-input-all
xserver-xorg-video-all
xterm
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