Bug#536381: Downgrade Dependency

[Josselin Mouette]

Le samedi 11 juillet 2009 à 13:33 -0700, Josh Watzman a écrit :
> gnome-screensaver is as a matter of fact useful without gnome at all; I
> use it as my screensaver on top of the ion3 window manager and it has
> been working very well for a while now. I'd like to be able to continue
> using it without pulling in a bunch of dependencies on gnome via
> gnome-session. Could this dependency be downgraded to a recommends or
> suggests since it doesn't actually *require* gnome-session?

I understand your concern and I’d like to remove this requirement as
well. The problem is that gnome-screensaver now relies on gnome-session
for the computation of idle time. If it can’t compute idle time, it is
useless since the screen won’t lock automatically.

Fixing this correctly requires including the old code conditionally,
when the gnome-session D-Bus interface is not available. If you can
provide a tested patch to that effect, I think it would be worth
including.

Cheers,
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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  `-     future understand things”  -- Jörg Schilling
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