Package: task-lxde-desktop Version: 3.12 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
please don't force the gdm3 dependency; I use LightDM, so I have tried to check what's pulled by installing 'gdm3', and it's 30 packages (see the long text below); instead of that, I suggest you to make it like this: Depends: gdm3 | lightdm (because of previous versions' dependency on 'xdm', 'gdm3 | x-display-manager' isn't a very good option). BTW, I've previously written that in comments to the "gdm3 enforcing request" bug #680519: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680519#64 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=680519#71 --- # apt-get install gdm3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: app-install-data at-spi dconf-tools gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2-plugins libatspi1.0-0 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 libgail-common libglib2.0-bin libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd7 libmetacity-private0a libpackagekit-glib2-14 libsystemd-daemon0 libwacom-common libwacom2 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 metacity metacity-common pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python-aptdaemon.pkcompat python-packagekit rtkit xserver-xephyr Suggested packages: gnome-mag gnome-orca gok gnome-shell gnome-screensaver gnome-control-center xdg-user-dirs pavumeter pavucontrol paman paprefs Recommended packages: packagekit-system-interface packagekit The following NEW packages will be installed: app-install-data at-spi dconf-tools gdm3 gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio libasound2-plugins libatspi1.0-0 libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk0 libgail-common libglib2.0-bin libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd7 libmetacity-private0a libpackagekit-glib2-14 libsystemd-daemon0 libwacom-common libwacom2 libwebrtc-audio-processing-0 metacity metacity-common pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils python-aptdaemon.pkcompat python-packagekit rtkit xserver-xephyr 0 upgraded, 30 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 22.3 MB/23.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 57.3 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n Abort. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash