[Mageia-dev] About dm

Sat Feb 18 01:28:42 CET 2012

Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 16:20 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+>    
+>> Op vrijdag 17 februari 2012 15:15:37 schreef Michael Scherer:
+>> [...]
+>>      
+>>> Because no one never documented exactly what is needed to be providing
+>>> dm, or what it exactly mean.
+>>>
+>>> Does it mean to be one of the choice of the prefdm service ?
+>>> Does it mean to be able to understand /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ ?
+>>> Ant others need to be seen as dm ? Where would it have impact, in
+>>> drakdm, somewhere ?
+>>>
+>>> Without enough formalism in the interaction of rpms, this is just gonna
+>>> be a hack. People will add provides, will change stuff, without any
+>>> consistency, and curiously, that later cause issues.
+>>>        
+>> ok, so you mean we need a documented wiki policy page regarding dm
+>> elegibility?
+>>      
+> Not elegibility, knowing what should be done on a package level to be
+> able to be a alternative to the others packages providing 'dm'.
+>
+> Likewise, the same should be done for httpd, sendmail-command etc.
+>
+>    
+Exactly.  Let's document all virtual provides.
+
+-- 
+André
+
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