On mar, 2008-11-25 at 02:15 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > 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.
Ok so that's a tasksel “problem”. That's where the problem needs a fix. > > I select the packages in the task in aptitude (go down to tasks, and + > the XFCE desktop environment line, then 'g'o Ok. > or > apt-get install foomatic-gui gdm mousepad ... xfce4-terminal ... and a > bunch of other packages I wanted > on a standard system Tasksel doesn't use apt-get. It use aptitude -R. So no recommends are installed. Testing with Recommends will bring you all the crap, yeah. > > 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). Well, the “fix” needs to go in tasksel, where the package list for xfce-desktop is. What exactly would you like to see there? Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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