On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 19:42:09 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 04:31:51PM -0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > In order to ensure that packages marked as "key" for a task remain present > > and installable in testing, britney uses a generated "faux" package which > > depends on each of the packages. This approach has, with the odd minor > > niggle, worked fine for some time but breaks down as soon as the set of > > packages involved are not completely coinstallable; this is now the case > > due to the gnome-desktop task indirectly depending on gdm3, and the xfce > > and lxde desktop tasks depending on gdm. The net effect is that the faux > > package becomes useless for the purpose of determining installability of > > the set of key packages, as it is itself uninstallable. > > I think the non-coinstallability of the tasks should be fixed. Why do they > *depend* on a display manager after all? That means that you cannot use those > metapackages on multiuser setups where you have to choose your desktop manager > wisely (because it needs to get along with all DEs installed). > The metapackages don't depend on the display manager, the *-desktop tasks do. I don't think it would make sense for a user to choose 'graphical desktop environment' in d-i and not end up with a display manager.
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