gnome-screensaver - inappropriate for inclusion in breezy

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Mario Vukelic Wrote: 
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 00:45 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > discuss it
> > at tonight's TB meeting 
> 
> If it is decided to go with gnome-screensaver nevertheless, it would be
> nice if the ubuntu-desktop package could depend on either
> gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver. As it is, installing xscreensaver
> removes the metapackage, and that makes aptitude remove a lot of
> automatically installed stuff.
> 
> Thanks,
> M
> 
> 
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If you install xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver and the ubuntu-desktop
metapackage are the only things removed. This does not effect anything
else.



However, when upgrading to the next version of Ubuntu, you would need
to re-install the ubuntu-desktop package (thus removing xscreensaver)
temporarily to ensure the upgrade runs smoothly. After that, you are
free to re-install xscreensaver if you'd like.


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