Bug#225640: Bug follow up (Re: bug 225640)

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 18 février 2007 à 15:25 +0100, Andreas Metzler a écrit :
> It is still possible to install metacity without Gnome, ending up with
> "a blank chequerboard backdrop and no apparent way to do anything". No
> icons, no menu, nothing. <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<Backspace> seems to be the only
> way out of it.
> 
> Shouldn't this bug be of a much higher severity? The current
> depends do not fullfill "The Depends field should be used if the
> depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a
> significant amount of functionality."

It is still possible to launch metacity without gnome, if you have
another workspace switcher / application launcher stuff running.

What should not be possible is to launch directly metacity as a X
session, because in this case you indeed can't do anything.

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