Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> writes:
> GNOME's gdm3 and KDE's sddm both enumerate possible Wayland sessions in
> /usr/{,local/}share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop and make them available
> as desktop sessions that users can choose, in addition to listing the
> X11 sessions that they traditionally did.
> At the moment, installing gdm3 pulls in either gnome-session (a minimal
> GNOME desktop), or some sort of X11 thing (usually a session manager,
> but sometimes a window manager or an xterm), but it should ideally be
> possible to install gdm3 as a login prompt from which to launch a
> non-GNOME Wayland session like weston or sway.
> I propose this entry for virtual-package-names-list.yaml:
> - name: wayland-session
> description: a Wayland desktop session
> (/usr/share/wayland-sessions/*.desktop)
I trust Simon to understand the issues here and nothing about this jumps
out as a problem, so seconded. This seems like an appropriate use of a
virtual package because this is a fairly broad-ranging interface that will
require coordination between separate packaging teams (such as the GNOME
and KDE teams).
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Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
