Bug 696942

Summary:	gnome-extra/cinnamon should depend on Xorg
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	PF4Public <PF4Public>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matthew Turnbull <sparky>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	proxy-maint, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.