Bug#596490: gnome-session: Unnecessary dependence on packages: gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity, policykit-1-gnome

Stanislav Fyodorov stanislav-fyodorov at yandex.ru
Sat Sep 11 23:35:52 UTC 2010


Package: gnome-session
Version: 2.30.2-1

gnome-session from 2.30 version begin depend on gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity, policykit-1-gnome packages. 2.22 version do not depend on them: only recomends gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity packages.
gnome-session works fine without this four packages. Now we just can not use gnome-session without them. Just imagine systems that doesn't require gnome-panel's, nautilus's, metacity's, policykit-1-gnome's cool stuff but require graphic interface, GDM and gnome-session. In case for 2.32 version we had to use x-session, xdm and so on wich do not require Nautilus and Gnome panel.
I'm sure that gnome-session 2.30 is not worser than x-session in this aspect and doesn't require this four packages for work.

I suggest to switch gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity, policykit-1-gnome packages from dependence to recomended packages for gnome-session.






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