Hi Andreas, Thanks for looking at it.
I understand your point, but gnome-shell recommends gdm3 [1] not depends. Switching it to recommends in gnome-core (or just letting gnome-shell bring it in) would be an improvement IMHO. I did review some of the other similar desktop environment packages and it seems there is no clear standard on on how to include the login manager. Thanks again, Bryan [1] https://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-shell On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> wrote: > Control: tags -1 + wontfix > > Hello "cid <n...@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