Bug#771183: Specific to gdm3

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for looking at it.

I understand your point, but gnome-shell recommends gdm3 [1] not
depends.   Switching it to recommends in gnome-core (or just letting
gnome-shell bring it in) would be an improvement IMHO.

I did review some of the other similar desktop environment packages
and it seems there is no clear standard on on how to include the login
manager.

Thanks again,
Bryan

[1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-shell

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Andreas Henriksson <andreas at fatal.se> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + wontfix
>
> Hello "cid <none at none.com>" and Brian Quigley.
>
>
> cid wrote:
>> Gnome core sould be a minimal, core package that not blow up unnecesarry our system.
>
> No, gnome-core is a meta-package that's *not* supposed to be a minimal
> selection of components but one that matches what GNOME upstream defines
> as "GNOME Core Applications".
>
> If you want to have a meta-package that's what you define as minimal
> then feel free to create one! gnome-core is not it.
> (Also if you don't want to follow the gnome definition then maybe
> you're also better of not using the gnome trademark in the name of
> your meta-package either.)
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:44:58AM -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote:
>> Hi Maintainer,
>>
>> The gdm3 dependency is a bit different than just including an application.
>> Could we move the gdm3 dependency to task-gnome-desktop? or to the
>> gnome metapackage?
>
> No, because gdm3 is really a core component and needs to be part
> of even a minimal gnome installation. For example gnome-shell depends
> on gdm3 to work correctly. Could something not including gnome-shell
> be called GNOME? I wouldn't. (But in the end it would be up to
> gnome upstream to enforce their trademark, so don't bother with what
> I think on the matter.)
>
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson