gdm should not recommend ubuntu-artwork

thank you for your bug report, gdm recommends the artwork because the gdm configuration is set by default to use the theme which is distributer there and it would display an error if this one was not available, note that you are not forced to install recommends and that the recommends are several alternative for distributions which have an another variant

I understand that it should show a warning, but again, you don't need *ubuntu-artwork*. You need ubuntu-gdm-themes for the recommends.
Having ubuntu-artwork pulls in all of this stuff:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gtk2-engines-murrine human-icon-theme human-theme ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-gdm-themes ubuntu-wallpapers
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 7573kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

11 megs is very valuable space for LiveCDs.

confirming

note that the ubuntu gtk is being used too and the icon theme should match, not sure if that's worth changing

This effects Ubuntu Studio as well. (I'd also imagine Xubuntu) As this was the behavior before Intrepid I don't see how this would cause and issue if the theme was dropped to suggests as it would only effect people installing GDM from a CLI system. Even then, it just errors and you are returned to a GNOME GDM screen.

Another option would to do something like that which is done for usplash, which Recommends: usplash-theme-ubuntu | usplash-theme (where usplash-theme is a virtual package that can be provided by any complaint usplash-theme)

I like Emmett's suggestion; any derivative providing a theme will very
easily be able to implement this.

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:51, C.Kontros <email address hidden> wrote:

> This effects Ubuntu Studio as well. (I'd also imagine Xubuntu) As this
> was the behavior before Intrepid I don't see how this would cause and
> issue if the theme was dropped to suggests as it would only effect
> people installing GDM from a CLI system. Even then, it just errors and
> you are returned to a GNOME GDM screen.
>
> --
> gdm should not recommend ubuntu-artwork
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/258091
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Mario Limonciello
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the recommends already lists alternative but right it could be changed this way

After a short discussion on #ubuntu-devel with the artwork teams for each of edubuntu, mythbuntu, ubuntustudio, and xubuntu, it was agreed that gdm should Recommend: ubuntu-gdm-themes | gdm-theme, and that theme providers should Provide: gdm-theme. To facilitate this, I have attached a debdiff for implementation.

the change has been uploaded to intrepid