Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Russ Allbery]

Jeremy Bicha <jbicha at ubuntu.com> writes:

> Not to put more ideas in Ian's head about packaging decisions to
> overrule, but nobody objects to gnome-core depending on gdm, which also
> starts by default after installation unless you explicitly disable it,
> and conflicts with several other display managers that are part of
> Debian.

That's the point, though.  No one objects.  In other words, we don't have
a regular trickle of users of Debian stating that they want to disable
gdm3 and use a different display manager while still wanting to use GNOME
and expressing dissatisfaction with the metapackage because of it.  So
there's no problem.  I personally have a lot of sympathy for Bdale's
position that metapackages would work better in general with Recommends,
but when no one's complaining, I'm certainly not going to poke my nose in
the GNOME team's business.

All three of the reasons in the original n-m decision are there for a
reason, and analogies to situations where one or more of those reasons
don't apply are not as relevant.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>