Erm... a) the OPs suggestion would prevent you from installing mutter alongside metacity, which is pretty important for curious people who might want to perhaps evaluate mutter, but not commit to using it, and need an exit strategy. Especially since mutter fails to start for many people right now. Since they do not, in fact, conflict, and play nicely together (at least when mutter is in a working state), conflicting is not a good idea.
b) Matti, if gdm were to depend on metacity or mutter, you would prevent people from choosing to only install an alternative window manager (of which there are many). The current situation is to recommend on metacity | x-window-manager, which is correct - it strongly suggests metacity but does not insist on anything. -- should Conflicts and Provides metacity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/435949 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
