Hi again, Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:19:59 +0200): > > Am 21. August 2026 13:16:14 MESZ schrieb > > > >the recent change to make 'xfce4' a 'Recommends' instead of 'Depends' has > >unexpected side effects: > >* The package 'cinnamon' get pulled in (which is not xfce) > >* The default greeter changed from 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' to 'slick-greeter' > >(as > >seen on openQA [1][2]) > > This is really unexpected to me. > Do you know, if these (xfce and mate, addressed in your MR) are the only > affected cases?
BTW: since this 'Change Depends to Recommends' is apparently not that trivial, this approach is probably a bad idea in general, since it was a main idea behind this, to do this change backward and forward during release cycles in the future? CC'ing Graham, as he initially requested this change. Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
