Bug#790360: metacity: should not recommend gnome-session (only suggest if at all)

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sun Jun 28 13:49:48 UTC 2015


Source: metacity
Severity: normal

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metacity recommends "gnome-session | x-session-manager".

Package relations are directional: It is unusual to install a session-
manager without a window-manager, but the opposite is not unusual.

Concretely, library parts of Sugar require metacity, and currently
installing develpment tools for building Sugar activities _without_ also
installing a fullblown Sugar environment pulls in ~100MB of GNOME,
depending on what was already on that system.

Please stop recommending a session-manager altogether, or if you insist
on that arguably reverse relation making sense then at least lower it to
only a suggestion.

Regards,

 - Jonas

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