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Bug 696942 - gnome-extra/cinnamon should depend on Xorg
Summary: gnome-extra/cinnamon should depend on Xorg
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Matthew Turnbull
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Reported: 2019-10-08 08:25 UTC by PF4Public
Modified: 2021-01-27 05:55 UTC (History)
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Description PF4Public 2019-10-08 08:25:58 UTC
I've installed cinnamon instead of gnome and upon depclean, notice, that xorg is to be removed. Shouldn't gnome-extra/cinnamon depend on xorg? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Matthew Turnbull 2021-01-27 05:03:01 UTC
This doesn't really seem in line with other desktop environment packages. I don't see (direct) xorg-server/xorg-x11 dependencies in KDE, XFCE, MATE, even GNOME.

Some desktop managers (GDM, sddm) do seem to depend on xorg-server, but not every manager does (lightdm, lxdm, xdm), and Cinnamon doesn't provide/declare a manager. So IMHO that's up to users to install and set things up the way they want.