* Matthieu Baerts [2015-08-06 14:46:00 +0000]: > Yes, it's true but on the other hand, a KDE user doesn't need and doesn't > want all GNOME specific packages just to have the dock.
That KDE-only user doesn't need /usr/share/gnome-session/. Splitting off cairo-doc.session to a package she doesn't need to install may be just the right thing for her. > > How about moving /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/cairo-dock.session > to a separate package and making *that* depend on unity-settings-daemon? > > Yes, it's maybe more clear but it will not fix the problem. This package > cannot be marked as required by other Cairo-Dock packages. Who said that it should be? I was thinking of doing it the other way around: make it (cairo-dock-gnome-integration, or whatever it will be called) require the core cairo-dock packages. People who want to use Cairo-Dock with GNOME would ask for this package only, and everything else they need would follow. Ditto for cairo-dock-kde-integration, cairo-dock-xfce4-integration, etc. as appropriate. I've also been thinking about the Enhances header, but as that is a reverse Suggests rather than a reverse Recommends I don't think it will help much in this case. (Maybe dpkg needs to grow conditional dependencies, that are activated only if a combination of several packages is installed; but I haven't done the math to see if this could actually be made to work, and in any case it would have to be filed as a wishlist bug against dpkg first.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Cairo- Dock Devs, which is subscribed to cairo-dock in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1464517 Title: cairo-dock-data is missing a dependency on gnome-settings-daemon Status in cairo-dock package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/cairo-dock.session lists gnome- settings-daemon (on trusty; may be unity-settings-daemon for some releases of Ubuntu) as a required component. This is a real requirement: when gnome-session-bin is installed but gnome-settings- daemon isn't, attempts to log in to a cairo-dock desktop session fail with the following messages in .xsession-errors: gnome-session[17624]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'gnome-settings-daemon' gnome-session[17624]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... Installing gnome-settings-daemon is sufficient to cure this symptom. That makes me think that cairo-dock-data (which provides cairo- dock.session) ought to have an explicit Depends: gnome-settings-daemon (or possibly a Recommends:, but definitely nothing less than that). I see that cairo-dock-core has a Recommends: gnome-session | <other stuff>, but that's so likely to be satisfied by one of the other choices to be almost useless. A survey of my trusty desktops indicates that systems upgraded from precise have gnome-session installed but fresh trusty installs only have gnome-session-bin. gnome-session depends on gnome-settings-daemon but gnome-session-bin does not. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cairo-dock/+bug/1464517/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~cairo-dock-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
