Bug#478497: gdm: Please make gnome-session as suggests

洪任諭 pcman.tw at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 11:16:39 UTC 2008


Package: gdm
Severity: minor

After reading the source code of gdm carefully, I found gdm is quite
desktop-independent.
To be more accurate, if I'm correct, gdm 'DOES NOT' require gnome at all.
However, apt-get by default install gnome-session along with gdm due
to its policy
change.
Since gnome-session is put in "Recommends" of gdm, it gets installed
automatically
with a lot of unnecessary gnome stuff. So we recommend that gnome-session be
moved to "Suggests".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to zh_TW.UTF8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash





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