Somewhere along the way from 12.04 to 14.04, it looks like this design question was addressed. Would you consider upgrading to 14.04 instead? If you prefer operating with an official release (E.g. production machine), 14.04 will be official very soon (April).
FYI, the dependencies reported by apt-cache of version 4.10.1-3ubuntu5 of xfce4-session are as follows: Depends: libatk1.0-0 Depends: libc6 Depends: libcairo2 Depends: libdbus-1-3 Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2 Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 Depends: libglib2.0-0 Depends: libgtk2.0-0 Depends: libice6 Depends: libpango-1.0-0 Depends: libpolkit-gobject-1-0 Depends: libsm6 Depends: libwnck22 Depends: libx11-6 Depends: libxfce4ui-1-0 Depends: libxfce4util6 Depends: libxfconf-0-2 Depends: xfce4-settings Depends: xfconf Richard On 03/30/2014 09:18 AM, Erik Lange wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've got a question about the package 'xfce-session' (4.8.3-0ubuntu2) > in Xubuntu 12.04.x. > > I always have not liked the gconf-dependency because only > 'xfce4-session' depends on it in my system and pulls a lot > (alltogether 5) additional (useless) gconf-packages. > The Debian 7.x version of 'xfce-session' (4.8.3-3) in comparison does > not need the gconf-packages without loss of functionality, I presume. > > So I would like to ask you to remove the gconf-dependency from > 'xfce-session' – if possible. > > Thank you for the great Xubuntu 12.04-release. > > Regards > > Erik > > > -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
