FS#32078 - [gnome-shell] Gnome-shell is depending on gdm
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Opened by Yichao Yu (yuyichao) - Friday, 19 October 2012, 02:49 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Saturday, 03 November 2012, 17:24 GMT
Opened by Yichao Yu (yuyichao) - Friday, 19 October 2012, 02:49 GMT
Last edited by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Saturday, 03 November 2012, 17:24 GMT
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Description:
When trying to run gnome-shell without gdm, it will quit with gjs errors not able to find Gdm's gir(sorry it is hard for me to copy the error message now.) installing gdm (and its dependency metacity) solves the problem. This dependency (gnome-shell is indirectly depending on metacity now) doesn't really make sense and I'm not sure whether the dependency should be added or either of them should be split. Package version: 3.6.1 Steps to reproduce: Install gnome-shell remove gdm start gnome-shell gnome-shell crashes I'll be happy to provide my package list if necessary. |
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Closed by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Saturday, 03 November 2012, 17:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: gnome-shell 3.6.1-3
Saturday, 03 November 2012, 17:24 GMT
Reason for closing: Fixed
Additional comments about closing: gnome-shell 3.6.1-3
[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32077
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There is indeed a import Gdm in userMenu.js (hopefully the right file name). So that dependency should be real...
gs 3.6 is in [extra] now and I think the dependencies should be handled correctly.
Not sure if it is an upstream "bug".
I have checked gdm's dependencies again (I mean the array specified in PKGBUILD), and gnome-shell is NOT a dependency of gdm afaik. It's only a optional dependency. So maybe there isn't a problem (at least no dependency loop) to add gdm as a dependency of gnome-shell? (Although if we do so, we would have gnome-shell depending on metacity(!!!!) as what I have mentioned. Or maybe the metacity dependency of gdm is not correct?)