Bug#474690: gnome-screensaver: takes over screen from xscreensaver

[Sven Arvidsson]

reassign 474690 gnome-desktop-environment
forcemerge 429270 474690
thanks

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 16:00 +0200, Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> >You should have no problem removing gnome-screensaver
> >as gnome-desktop-environment is a meta-package.
> 
> Yes, I could remove gnome-desktop-environment and then remove
> gnome-screensaver.  But then I would lose any improvements of
> gnome-desktop-environment, as for example packages that come out.
> 
> This is the reason why one installs gnome-desktop-environment, and it is
> the reason why I would like to keep it.  A solution would be to have
> gnome-desktop-environment depend on xscreensaver|gnome-screensaver. But
> to do that it would be necessary for brightside to work with either
> xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver, which it currently does not.

A depends on xscreensaver isn't going to happen, see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429270#10 for a
discussion on this. 

A better solution is to use recommends instead of depends
in gnome-desktop-environment.

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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