Bug#958455: From a minimum installation of Sid, metapackage enlightenment installs neither X nor a login manager. Debian Sid, 15 april 2020

[Daniel Tourde]

Hello Ross,

Thank you for your quick reply.
I am quite new to Debian, so this might explain why I misunderstood 'enlightenment' as a metapackage when it is as you said, in fact, the window manager in itself.
Now I am not really sure I really grasp what you mean with 'Suggests'. Would it be a message on the console saying "Well, if you need a login manager please install now package 'x-display-manager'? That's an option
The other option is to have a 'enlightenment-desktop' metapackage which install enlightenment and a simple login-manager (even though it is not EFL-based).

To be honest, I have no preferences, as long as it feels simple and logical... ;)

Best regards

Daniel  

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Vandegrift <rvandegrift at debian.org> 
Sent: den 23 april 2020 08:11
To: Daniel Tourde <daniel.tourde at foi.se>; 958455 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#958455: From a minimum installation of Sid, metapackage enlightenment installs neither X nor a login manager. Debian Sid, 15 april 2020

Hi Daniel,

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 09:18:24AM +0000, Daniel Tourde wrote:
> I was expecting to be welcomed by a login manager but it did not 
> happen 'automagically', so to say. I checked and noticed that neither 
> X nor a login manager were installed (as it happens with Gnome, KDE, 
> XFCE (I checked... ;) )). Can this be fixed?

Currently, enlightenment is not a metapackge as your subject says - it's a binary package for the enlightenment window manager.  I don't think it's appropriate to add a Depends or Recommends on a login manager, since it's reasonable to use without.

At most it might make sense to add Suggests: x-display-manager.  But apt does not install Suggests by default, so you'd still need to request it manually.
Would this be an improvement?

> I know that 'entrance' is not considered stable/mature at the moment 
> but I guess an another login manager could be installed anyway, one 
> that does not require way too many dependencies.

If entrance (or some other EFL-based login manager) were mature, I'd be tempted to add an enlightenment-desktop metapackage.  But I don't think this is likely.

Ross