285653 – xfce-extra/xfswitch: missing RDEP; broken functionality

Bug 285653 - xfce-extra/xfswitch: missing RDEP; broken functionality

Summary: xfce-extra/xfswitch: missing RDEP; broken functionality

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	XFCE Team

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Reported:	2009-09-20 07:59 UTC by nm (RETIRED)
Modified:	2009-09-20 16:26 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-09-20 07:59:19 UTC

I was so excited to discover the user switching applet in our repos. I thought, "Hey, here's what I'm missing now that I use SLiM and not GDM! An easy way to switch users!"

I emerged it, added it to the panel, clicked it, chose "switch user" . . . and BAM:


Failed to execute child process "gdmflexiserver" (No such file or directory)


gdmflexiserver comes from gnome-base/gdm. So xfswitch needs an RDEPEND on gnome-base/gdm. Otherwise it no worky. Lamesauce!

Comment 1 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-09-20 16:13:39 UTC

Dang, if you use slim you need gdm installed anyway to get similar functionality from xfswitch, that is comical. :)

Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester

2009-09-20 16:26:40 UTC

+  20 Sep 2009; Jeremy Olexa <darkside@gentoo.org>
+  xfswitch-plugin-0.0.1.ebuild:
+  Add missing rdep on gnome-base/gdm, reported by Josh Saddler in bug
+  285653. Other small QA cleanup