On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:45:47 +0100 Yves-Alexis Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On ven, 2008-11-21 at 19:23 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > It was suggested to me by Frans Pop that I should let you xfce folks > > know since you're most likely to be motivated to solve it. > > Opening an important bug on our metapackage is not really the best way > to do that. We have a mailing list, you know? > > And why are you dropping the bug from CC:? Sorry, that was an accident. > > > For example > > by figuring out an appropriate dependency that works and working > > with the gnome folks to get the gdm package changed to the new > > dependencies. > > Apt won't be fixed for lenny (I already filed the bug on aptitude > > and that's what I was told). > > What I don't understand is exactly what you're doing to get the > result? xfce4-desktop doesn't exist. There is xfce4/xfce4-goodies > metapackages, and the xfce-desktop task. *what* are you installing, > please. The xfce-desktop task. I select the packages in the task in aptitude (go down to tasks, and + the XFCE desktop environment line, then 'g'o or apt-get install foomatic-gui gdm mousepad ... xfce4-terminal ... and a bunch of other packages I wanted on a standard system > > > > > > Btw are you trying with tasksel, aptitude or apt-get? With or > > without > > > recommends? > > > > Either of aptitude and apt-get with recommends (I believe it happens > > without recommends as well, but I don't recall when I did that > > test). I > > first encountered it in aptitude, but another install revealed that > > apt-get has the same problem. > > > > If I get the opportunity I will test in a uml box in a few days. > > Well, when reporting bug please give usable information. Especially > since this seems to be a corner case of packages not maintained by us, > wether it be gdm or apt/aptitude/tasksel. Maintainer of aptitude thinks its a bug in apt or aptitude (or both), but doesn't intend to fix it for lenny, so I thought I'd drop you a line and let you know that there is something that needs fixing that affects ONLY xfce users (and thus finding a workaround is probably not as urgent to anyone who doesn't care about xfce, hence my sending the bug. Perhaps I should have just used the mailing list, but I didn't think of that). -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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