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

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Wed Apr 30 08:36:28 UTC 2008


Le mardi 29 avril 2008 à 19:16 +0800, =?UTF-8?Q?
=E6=B4=AA=E4=BB=BB=E8=AB=AD ?= a écrit :
> 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".

gdm does not recommend gnome-session. It *depends* on a session manager,
defaulting to gnome-session. If you install gdm with an existing session
manager installed, it will not install gnome-session.

The dependencies are a bit incorrect, though: x-window-manager instead
of x-session-manager. I’ll fix them in the next upload.

Cheers,
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