Virtual provides for window managers

[Casey Dahlin]

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> Dnia 22-01-2008, wto o godzinie 13:45 -0500, Matthias Clasen pisze:
>   
>> 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...
>>
>>     
>
> What about eg. fvwm instead of twm? twm doesn't look familiar for
> GNOME/KDE user at all...
>
>   
Should we have a prefwm maybe?

--CJD