Bug#679059: gdm3: please reduce metacity dependency

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 26 juin 2012 à 12:33 -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit : 
> I see.  What about demoting metacity's zenity depends to a recommends?
>  That would have a similar effect; reducing a lot of the bigger
> dependencies like webkit being pulled in.
> 
> If that seems reasonable, I'll reassign to metacity.

Currently metacity really needs zenity to show error messages.
However it looks like this code (in src/core/util.c) could be easily
replaced by C code doing the same thing.

If you can patch it out, we’ll happily remove the dependency.

Cheers,
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