On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:11:12 +0100
Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Recently some system-config-* tools were moved from the base-x group
to their "appropriate desktop environments" [1] [2]. I think removing
them from base-x is a step in the right direction, but adding
system-config-* stuff and especially abrt-desktop or gnome-packagekit
with their GNOME dependencies to the xfce-desktop group seems wrong
to me. These are admin tools, they are already part of the
admin-tools group and will be installed on the current Xfce spin
anyway because we install admin-tools. IMHO 'yum install
ydxe-desktop' should only install an Xfce desktop, not more and not
less.
Is everybody fine with me removing
* abrt-desktop
* gnome-packagekit
* system-config-date
* system-config-firewall
* system-config-services
* system-config-users
from xfce-desktop? I'd do the same as I did for LXDE [3].
This still leaves us with the following non-Xfce packages:
* desktop-backgrounds-compat
* gdm
* openssh-askpass
* polkit-gnome
desktop-backgrounds-compat is required and openssh-ask pass not
problematic. polkit-gnome is not problematic either because it has no
GNOME dependencies, but if this changes or they switch to GTK+ 3, we
can still move to lxpolkit.
So the only questionable package is gdm. I think we need a display
manager but I'm no longer convinced it should be gdm. gdm now is in
GTK+ 3 and requires not only gnome-session but also
gnome-settings-manager and gnome-screensaver with all their deps such
as gnome-control-center. We'd end up with two screensavers but only
xscreensaver works in Xfce.
LXDE is too buggy IMHO and I'm currently packaging and investigating
lightdm [4]. I'll let you know once it's read for testing and then we
can decide whether or not to switch.
Questions? Thoughts?
Regards,
Christoph
[1]
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2cb3971ffb2a...
[2]
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git;a=commitdiff;h=9905085a78c71...
[3]
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git;a=commitdiff;h=aa9132ce2a119...
[4]
https://launchpad.net/lightdm/
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So the only questionable package is gdm. I think we need a display
manager but I'm no longer convinced it should be gdm. gdm now is in
GTK+ 3 and requires not only gnome-session but also
gnome-settings-manager and gnome-screensaver with all their deps such
as gnome-control-center. We'd end up with two screensavers but only
xscreensaver works in Xfce.
What about XDM? Yeah its ugly however it gets the job done.
* openssh-askpass
* polkit-gnome
I am fine with leaving these within the list of packages kept, however
I have wanted to remove GDM for over a year now.