Bug#771183: Specific to gdm3

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix

Hello "cid <none at none.com>" and Brian Quigley.


cid wrote:
> Gnome core sould be a minimal, core package that not blow up unnecesarry our system.

No, gnome-core is a meta-package that's *not* supposed to be a minimal
selection of components but one that matches what GNOME upstream defines
as "GNOME Core Applications".

If you want to have a meta-package that's what you define as minimal
then feel free to create one! gnome-core is not it.
(Also if you don't want to follow the gnome definition then maybe
you're also better of not using the gnome trademark in the name of
your meta-package either.)


On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:44:58AM -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> Hi Maintainer,
> 
> The gdm3 dependency is a bit different than just including an application.
> Could we move the gdm3 dependency to task-gnome-desktop? or to the
> gnome metapackage?

No, because gdm3 is really a core component and needs to be part
of even a minimal gnome installation. For example gnome-shell depends
on gdm3 to work correctly. Could something not including gnome-shell
be called GNOME? I wouldn't. (But in the end it would be up to
gnome upstream to enforce their trademark, so don't bother with what
I think on the matter.)

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson