Bug 2418788

Summary:	Free mutter-devkit from mutter-devel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Vít Ondruch <vondruch>
Component:	mutter	Assignee:	GNOME SIG Unassigned <gnome-sig>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	fmuellner, gnome-sig, jadahl, otaylor, philip.wyett, walters
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Description Vít Ondruch 2025-12-04 12:50:05 UTC

Previously, it was possible to run nested gnome-session such as:

~~~
$ dbus-run-session gnome-shell --nested --wayland
~~~

Now it seems this requires `mutter-devkit` [1] and the command is:

~~~
$ dbus-run-session gnome-shell --devkit --wayland
~~~

However, according to documentation [2], this requires to install mutter-devel on Fedora which has insane amount of dependencies:

~~~
... snip ...

Transaction Summary:
 Installing:       112 packages
 Upgrading:         45 packages
 Replacing:         46 packages
 Downgrading:        1 package

Total size of inbound packages is 160 MiB. Need to download 153 MiB.
After this operation, 390 MiB extra will be used (install 701 MiB, remove 311 MiB).
~~~

Please enable installation of mutter-devkit without all these dependencies.



[1]: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/gnome-49-nested-sessions-no-longer-possible/30987
[2]: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/javascript/gjs-guide/-/blob/main/docs/extensions/development/creating.md

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:
~~~
sudo dnf install /usr/libexec/mutter-devkit
~~~

Requires hundreds of MB of depenecies

Expected Results:
~~~
sudo dnf install /usr/libexec/mutter-devkit
~~~

Installs ideally one small package, enabling the nested gnome-session

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