Bug#1033274: gnome-session: recommends xdg-desktop-portal-gnome and not depends

[Pablo Mazzini]

I don't see other distributions (such as Fedora) having x-d-p-gnome as a
dependency of gnome-session.

Shouldn't the user be able to choose to have a minimal setup without the
support for it?

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 10:59 AM Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 10:32:23 +0100, Pablo Mazzini wrote:
> > > Therefore, the desktop session needs to depend on the portal that has
> the
> > > best integration.
> >
> > Why does this dependency needs to be specified in the gnome-session
> package?
> > Wouldn't gnome-core be a better place to specify this?
>
> gnome-core is a somewhat complete GNOME session with various utilities
> included (an image viewer, a calculator, software updates, a terminal...),
> while gnome-session is the minimal GNOME session containing only the
> necessary infrastructure to log in to a working GNOME interface.
> Their scope is rather different.
>
> x-d-p-gnome is more like behind-the-scenes desktop environment plumbing
> than a user-facing application: various applications will not work
> correctly without it. It also isn't very large. Having a working portal
> backend is becoming similar to having a working D-Bus session bus,
> or a working fd.o Notifications interface, or a working X11 or Wayland
> display, or a working sound server: something that apps assume, such
> that the app can't work correctly without it.
>
> Let me turn this around: what is your use-case for installing
> gnome-session but not x-d-p-gnome, such that logging into a minimal
> GNOME session is possible, but applications that require a working portal
> backend will not work correctly while logged into that session?
>
>     smcv
>
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