Thanks. I will give that a try. On Oct 30, 2016 9:57 PM, "Debian Bug Tracking System" <ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the sddm package: > > #842650: sddm won't install without kde packages > > It has been closed by Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Scott Kitterman < > deb...@kitterman.com> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 842650: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842650 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> > To: 842650-d...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 23:52:06 -0400 > Subject: Re: Bug#842650: sddm won't install without kde packages > On Sunday, October 30, 2016 08:53:59 PM Tony Sultana wrote: > > Package: sddm > > Version: 0.13.0-1 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > I am currently using LXQT 0.11 with the LightDM display manager. I > > understand that SDDM is recommended as a display manager for several > > distros. When I try to install SDDM it appears to try to install a full > > version of KDE Plasma along with it. > > > > The SDDM website installation makes no mention of requiring KDE Plasma, > > https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/Installation. > > > > I am thinking that the requirements may be too broad for SDDM. It may be > > required for KDE but I think the reverse should not be needed. > > In Debian, the only even vaguely KDE/Plasma depends that sddm has is: > > sddm-theme-breeze | sddm-theme > > sddm-theme-breeze does depend on plasma-workspace, but if you install > another > sddm-theme, nothing will get pulled in. I don't think this is a bug, but > an > attribute of how the maintainer decided to arrange the dependency. You > have > to pick one real package to be installed if the virtual package is > provided by > multiple packages. The other choices currently in unstable are: > > sddm-theme-maui 0.13.0-1 > sddm-theme-maldives 0.13.0-1 > sddm-theme-elarun 0.13.0-1 > sddm-theme-circles 0.13.0-1 > > Scott K > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tony Sultana <chaz.an...@gmail.com> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Cc: > Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 20:53:59 -0600 > Subject: sddm won't install without kde packages > Package: sddm > Version: 0.13.0-1 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > I am currently using LXQT 0.11 with the LightDM display manager. I > understand > that SDDM is recommended as a display manager for several distros. When I > try > to install SDDM it appears to try to install a full version of KDE Plasma > along > with it. > > The SDDM website installation makes no mention of requiring KDE Plasma, > https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/Installation. > > I am thinking that the requirements may be too broad for SDDM. It may be > required for KDE but I think the reverse should not be needed. > > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > >
