MATE desktop

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:21:58AM +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:52:02AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > $ rpm -e --test gdm
> > > > error: Failed dependencies:
> > > >         gdm is needed by (installed) xfce4-xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1-8.fc18.x86_64
> > > >         gdm >= 1:2.22.0 is needed by (installed) pulseaudio-gdm-hooks-2.1-6.fc18.x86_64

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> > $ uname -r
> > 3.10.9-100.fc18.x86_64
>              ^^^^
> 
> You appear to use F18, I (and OP?) am using F19:

I know I'm on F18.

I think this might be a packaging bug in F19.  Take a look here:
<https://wiki.gnome.org/GDM>.  The list of dependencies does not include
gnome-shell.  Among the list, glib seems to be the only candidate that
might require gnome-shell (remotely).  I checked on my F19 server, that
is not the case:

$ rpm -q --provides glib
glib = 1:1.2.10-39.fc19
glib(x86-64) = 1:1.2.10-39.fc19
libglib-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
libgmodule-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
libgthread-1.2.so.0()(64bit)
glib = 1:1.2.10-39.fc19
glib(x86-32) = 1:1.2.10-39.fc19
libglib-1.2.so.0
libgmodule-1.2.so.0
libgthread-1.2.so.0

Actually, I see that the dependency was explicitly added without gdm
actually requiring it (IOW, packager's configuration choice):

  <http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gdm.git/tree/gdm.spec#n348>

Maybe it is worth a bug report?

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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