Bug#762757: gdm3: please don't depend on gnome-shell

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Package: gdm3
Version: 3.13.92-1
Severity: wishlist


Hi.

Is gnome-shell really needed for gdm to run?

I thought gdm was intended to also be a general purpose DM,
but people who use anything else, e.g. Cinnamon, than
gnome shell have to pull in the full dependency tree of it.


Cheers,
Chris.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii  accountsservice                              0.6.37-3
ii  adduser                                      3.113+nmu3
ii  cinnamon [x-window-manager]                  2.2.16-3
ii  dconf-cli                                    0.22.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend                      0.22.0-1
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                        1.5.53
ii  gir1.2-gdm3                                  3.13.92-1
ii  gnome-session [x-session-manager]            3.14.0-1
ii  gnome-session-bin                            3.14.0-1
ii  gnome-session-flashback [x-session-manager]  3.8.1-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.12.2-1+b2
ii  gnome-shell                                  3.14.0-1
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]         3.12.3-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.14.0-1
ii  libaccountsservice0                          0.6.37-3
ii  libaudit1                                    1:2.4-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-11
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.30.8-1
ii  libgdm1                                      3.13.92-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-bin                               2.42.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.0-1
ii  libpam-modules                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam-runtime                               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam-systemd                               215-4
ii  libpam0g                                     1.1.8-3.1
ii  librsvg2-common                              2.40.4-1
ii  libselinux1                                  2.3-2
ii  libsystemd0                                  215-4
ii  libwrap0                                     7.6.q-25
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxau6                                      1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxdmcp6                                    1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                                   2:1.4.2-1
ii  lsb-base                                     4.1+Debian13
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]                  1:3.12.0-2
ii  policykit-1                                  0.105-6.1
ii  ucf                                          3.0030
ii  x11-common                                   1:7.7+7
ii  x11-xserver-utils                            7.7+3
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]                  311-1

Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii  at-spi2-core               2.12.0-2
ii  desktop-base               7.0.3
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.12.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  x11-xkb-utils              7.7+1
ii  xserver-xephyr             2:1.16.1-1
ii  xserver-xorg               1:7.7+7
ii  zenity                     3.14.0-1

Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
ii  gnome-orca            3.12.2-1
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring  3.14.0-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/gdm3/greeter.gsettings'

-- debconf information:
  gdm3/daemon_name: /usr/sbin/gdm3
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm3