Bug#679059: gdm3: please reduce metacity dependency

Michael Gilbert · External Since: Apr 18, 2012 Posts: 69

package: gdm3
version: 3.4.1-1
severity: normal

Hi,

The latest gdm3 uploads promoted metacity from a suggests to a
depends. This pulls in many additional libraries (such as webkit),
which aren't really useful when gdm3 is only used as a simple login
manager. By default recommends are installed, so I think that would
be a better place for this; since it makes it possible for users to be
selective.

Thanks,
Mike

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Josselin Mouette · External Since: Nov 09, 2004 Posts: 1252

Le mardi 26 juin 2012 à 01:45 -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit :
> The latest gdm3 uploads promoted metacity from a suggests to a
> depends. This pulls in many additional libraries (such as webkit),
> which aren't really useful when gdm3 is only used as a simple login
> manager. By default recommends are installed, so I think that would
> be a better place for this; since it makes it possible for users to be
> selective.

I’m afraid this is not going to happen, since metacity is now completely
required by the fallback session (which is the default).

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Michael Gilbert · External Since: Apr 18, 2012 Posts: 69

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I’m afraid this is not going to happen, since metacity is now completely
> required by the fallback session (which is the default).

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.

Best wishes,
Mike

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Josselin Mouette · External Since: Nov 09, 2004 Posts: 1252

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.

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