Hi, Le lundi 24 mai 2010, à 10:57 +0200, Guido Berhoerster a écrit :

Hello,

we've recently encountered some problems with the LXDM login manager and it has turned out that the codebase is not really mature yet and suffers from some IMO rather fundamental quality problems which need to be addressed upstream (see. eg bnc#584573). It would therefore be desirable to have GDM as a fallback for users who encounter problems with LXDM or even to possibly switch to it as the default login manager for the 11.3 release. The problem is that GDM currently depends on most of the Gnome desktop through its dependency on gnome-panel and gnome-session. The indirect dependencies could be drastically reduced by putting the libgnome-panel-2 library and the core runtime files of gnome session in separate subpackages of gnome-panel and gnome-session and by making gdm depend on these subpackages only. It is pretty late, but would it be possible to reorganize the three packages like this? Experimental versions of the three packages can be found in home:gberh:gdm.

I like your changes. A few comments you should probably fix before submitting the changes to GNOME:Factory: General comments: - Use a capital letter at the beginning of each item in your .changes entries :-) gnome-panel: - the Requires on libpanel-applet-2-0 shouldn't be needed for gnome-panel (it should be added automatically) - the libpanel-applet-2-0 subpackage should have a Recommends on gnome-panel - you can remove the %post/%postun for the main package if they're only about ldconfig since there's no more library there gnome-session: - I'm wondering if the core subpackage shouldn't also require gnome-settings-daemon. Else, gdm will look horrible, I guess. This might introduce more dependency fun, though. - maybe the core subpackage should be named minimal. Not sure. - change summary of core to "Session Manager for GNOME -- Minimal Version" and change the summary of the main package to "Session Manager for GNOME" - Change description of core to something like: "This packages contain a minimal version of gnome-session, that can be used for specific cases. The gnome-session package is needed for a fully functional GNOME desktop." - put the right manpages in the right package (some should be in the main one, others should be in core) - I would leave gnome-session-properties in the main package - /usr/share/gnome-session/session-properties.ui should live with gnome-session-properties, in the main package - /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/gnome-session-sleep.svg should live in core - the "%doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README" line should be in core gdm: - we should probably split the applet in a subpackage too. Call it gnome-applets-gdm, and make it have: Supplements: packageand(%{name}:gnome-panel) You can ping me on irc if something is unclear. (no need to continue the thread on both opensuse-gnome and opensuse-factory, btw: just choose one :-)) Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org