On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Marko Vojinovic <vvma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 23 October 2011 19:17:54 Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 10/23/2011 07:20 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: >> > A simple solution would be not disinstall GDM by default in any WM group >> > disinstallation: I guess that many people want to try different WM's and >> > in case they decided to disinstall some WM, their GDM would be killed, >> > that is not fair. How about this simple decision, i.e. not to include >> > GDM in any disinstallation list?? >> >> In general, when you remove a package you also remove its dependencies >> if and only if nothing else needs them. As long as you have a WM >> installed that needs gdm, it shouldn't be removed. Sounds like a bug to >> me. Report it. > > How do you determine whether or not a given wm needs gdm? Any wm can equally > well use kdm instead of gdm, so it is actually a conditional dependency --- > "if there is no other dm installed, and if there is some wm which depends on > the presence of a dm, don't uninstall it". > > It's a mess, if you ask me. :-) Multiple wm's and de's, "maybe depending" on > multiple dm's that may or may not be present... >
Developers could try something similar to symbolic links. Each package could add a dependency link. When the last link is deleted the actual dependent package can be removed. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
