FS#32411 - Add xorg-server dependency for GNOME

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Karol Babioch (johnpatcher) - Saturday, 03 November 2012, 01:16 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 03 November 2012, 19:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After trying to get a GNOME installation with as few packages as possible, I realized that GNOME is currently not dependent on the X.org server. I managed to install GNOME and activate GDM, but upon restart GDM would fail to start, because X.org was still missing. I'm not sure what would be the best package of the "gnome" group to be dependent on X.org, but my first approach would be GDM itself. I'm aware of the fact that there are other login managers working with GNOME, but probably they should have a similar dependency.

I'm not sure whether there are any usable alternatives to X.org, but at least in the future there probably will be Wayland. So maybe there should be some sort of meta package and/or group which then would be required by any graphical login manager.
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Saturday, 03 November 2012, 19:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Implemented in gdm 3.6.1-2
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 03 November 2012, 01:25 GMT
Its already been done for GDM: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2012-November/179485.html
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 03 November 2012, 13:05 GMT
We don't add xorg dependencies to WM/DE's also it's quiet impossible since gnome is a group.

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