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Public bug reported:

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

** Affects: unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: dependencies lightdm package-dependencies packaging

** Description changed:

  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

** Description changed:

  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?
+ 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

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Title:
  Unity-greeter only recommends lightdm

Status in unity-greeter package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug 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. 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

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