Bug#1145003: tasksel: Clean installation of XFCE (sid) pulls in parts of cinnamon

Hi Roland,

Am 21. August 2026 13:16:14 MESZ schrieb 
>
>the recent change to make 'xfce4' a 'Recommends' instead of 'Depends' has
>unexpected side effects:
>* The package 'cinnamon' get pulled in (which is not xfce)
>* The default greeter changed from 'lightdm-gtk-greeter' to 'slick-greeter' (as
>seen on openQA [1][2])

This is really unexpected to me.
Do you know, if these (xfce and mate, addressed in your MR) are the only affected cases?


Holger



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