Bug#679059: gdm3: please reduce metacity dependency

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Tue Jun 26 12:14:54 UTC 2012


Le mardi 26 juin 2012 à 01:45 -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit : 
> The latest gdm3 uploads promoted metacity from a suggests to a
> depends.  This pulls in many additional libraries (such as webkit),
> which aren't really useful when gdm3 is only used as a simple login
> manager.  By default recommends are installed, so I think that would
> be a better place for this; since it makes it possible for users to be
> selective.

I’m afraid this is not going to happen, since metacity is now completely
required by the fallback session (which is the default).

Cheers,
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