http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=981663
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=981663#c5
Dominique Leuenberger
I see. The dependency on icewm was added as solution for bnc#956537. Ideally xorg-x11-Xvnc would depend on something like "any desktop environment or icewm as fallback". No idea if this can be done with RPM.
In theory, yes - all 'WMs' / 'DEs' could provide one 'generic symbol' (e.g Provides: any-window-manager) and xorg-x11-Xvnc could then Requires: any-window-manager. For as long as the user installs a graphical system, this would be satisfied - otherwise if xorg-x11-Xvnc is benig installed on a system without any DE yet, zypper will 'pick one' (where it tries to minimize the number of packages needed). so, in fact you can't really say : if none is there, pick icewm' - chances are though that zypp will go this route as it is likely the smallest stack to chose.
So I don't object removing xorg-x11-Xvnc from the pattern.
Thanks - I'll submit this in the coming days. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.