Recently some system-config-* tools were moved from the base-x group to
their "appropriate desktop environments" [1] [2]. I think removing them
from base-x is a step in the right direction, but adding system-config-*
stuff and especially abrt-desktop or gnome-packagekit with their GNOME
dependencies to the xfce-desktop group seems wrong to me. These are
admin tools, they are already part of the admin-tools group and will be
installed on the current Xfce spin anyway because we install
admin-tools. IMHO 'yum install ydxe-desktop' should only install an Xfce
desktop, not more and not less.
Is everybody fine with me removing
* abrt-desktop
* gnome-packagekit
* system-config-date
* system-config-firewall
* system-config-services
* system-config-users
from xfce-desktop? I'd do the same as I did for LXDE [3].
This still leaves us with the following non-Xfce packages:
* desktop-backgrounds-compat
* gdm
* openssh-askpass
* polkit-gnome
desktop-backgrounds-compat is required and openssh-ask pass not
problematic. polkit-gnome is not problematic either because it has no
GNOME dependencies, but if this changes or they switch to GTK+ 3, we can
still move to lxpolkit.
So the only questionable package is gdm. I think we need a display
manager but I'm no longer convinced it should be gdm. gdm now is in GTK+
3 and requires not only gnome-session but also gnome-settings-manager
and gnome-screensaver with all their deps such as gnome-control-center.
We'd end up with two screensavers but only xscreensaver works in Xfce.
LXDE is too buggy IMHO and I'm currently packaging and investigating
lightdm [4]. I'll let you know once it's read for testing and then we
can decide whether or not to switch.
Questions? Thoughts?
Regards,
Christoph
[1]
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git;a=commitdiff;h=f2cb3971ffb2a...
[2]
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git;a=commitdiff;h=9905085a78c71...
[3]
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=comps.git;a=commitdiff;h=aa9132ce2a119...
[4]
https://launchpad.net/lightdm/