Activity log for bug #1431313

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2015-03-12 11:52:57 Rovanion bug added bug
2015-03-12 11:54:21 Rovanion description I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, but here goes. Unity-greeter and the other greeter packages only recommends lightdm. This means that you can install a greeter, such as lightdm-gtk-greete, thinking that you now got lightdm installed and then reboot to find that it's not. Is there any situation in which a user or or sysadmin would want to have unity-greeter installed but not lightdm? I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, but here goes. Unity-greeter and the other greeter packages only recommends lightdm. This means that you can install a greeter, such as lightdm-gtk-greete, thinking that you now got lightdm installed and then reboot to find that it's not. Is there any situation in which a user or or sysadmin would want to have unity-greeter installed but not lightdm? URL to the package in vivid, unity-greeter only recommends lightdm, does not depend on it: http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/unity-greeter
2015-03-12 11:54:47 Rovanion description I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, but here goes. Unity-greeter and the other greeter packages only recommends lightdm. This means that you can install a greeter, such as lightdm-gtk-greete, thinking that you now got lightdm installed and then reboot to find that it's not. Is there any situation in which a user or or sysadmin would want to have unity-greeter installed but not lightdm? URL to the package in vivid, unity-greeter only recommends lightdm, does not depend on it: http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/unity-greeter I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, but here goes. Unity-greeter and the other greeter packages only recommends lightdm. This means that you can install a greeter, such as lightdm-gtk-greete, thinking that you now got lightdm installed and then reboot to find that it's not. Is there any situation in which a user or or sysadmin would want to have unity-greeter installed but not lightdm. Does unity-greeter "work" without lightdm? URL to the package in vivid, unity-greeter only recommends lightdm, does not depend on it: http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/unity-greeter
2016-05-10 08:48:58 Sebastien Bacher unity-greeter (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Low