[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#764237: Bug#764237: Needlessly "Depends" on lightdm or gdm3

Maximiliano Curia maxy at gnuservers.com.ar
Mon Oct 6 15:59:13 UTC 2014


Control: tag -1 + pending

¡Hola Thibaut!

El 2014-10-06 a las 17:26 +0200, Thibaut Paumard escribió:
> Package: cinnamon-core
> Version: 2.2.3
> Severity: wishlist

> cinnamon-core depends on ligthdm | gdm3, but it can be used without any of
> the two. I use it without a DM at all (using the nodm package, but one could
> also simply use startx), and there are more DMs in Debian than those two. I
> had to use equivs to get rid of lightdm.

> In my opinion, this dependency should read:

> Recommends: lightdm | x-display-manager

> This would still (by default) ensure that a DM is installed, picking lightdm
> if possible, without pushing a new DM on a machine already set-up to use
> kdm. This also allows users to bypass this recommendation altogether.

Thanks for you report, the change you requested was already pending in the
package repository.

Happy hacking,
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