Virtual provides for window managers

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 00:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> System-config-display has a hard dependency on metacity while it is not 
> required at all in say the KDE or Xfce spin. I believe the ideal 
> solution would be to have add a virtual provides to all the window 
> managers and then depend on it from system-config-display
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427814
> 
> What would be the best way to move ahead with this now? File individual 
> bug reports against each of them?

Have you checked why s-c-d has a dependency on metacity ?!

It is there because it runs metacity if there is no X server/wm around.
Having twm installed will help little for that...