[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#827562: Bug#827562: task-xfce-desktop: Depends on light-locker Should Be Recommends
On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 14:35 -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:24:13AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > So yes, we *want* light-locker in the default Debian Xfce desktop. But that
> > doesn't mean you can't use something else with the Xfce desktop environment
> > under debian: just remove light-locker. Yes, it'll remove task-xfce-desktop
> > (except that I've never seen it installed after a standard installer run, but
> > I don't do that very often either), but task-xfce-desktop is just a
> > metapackage anyway.
> >
> > I hope the position is clearer now?
> >
> Your position is entirely clear and reasonable.??It's the
> implementation I'm having trouble with.
>
> When you install task-xfce-desktop, from a dependency standpoint, it
> becomes the "parent" of all things XFCE -- the task is marked as manually
> installed; its dependencies are marked as automatically installed,
[...]
That's no longer the case. ?APT does not to do this when the depending
package is in section 'metapackages' or 'oldlibs'.
Ben.
--?
Ben Hutchings
Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together.
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