[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release xdm-1.1.11-3.mga2

Wed Feb 29 22:06:31 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 29/02/12 17:59 did gyre and gimble:
+> Le mercredi 29 février 2012 à 18:44 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit :
+>> Am 29.02.2012 17:34, schrieb Thierry Vignaud:
+>>> On 29 February 2012 17:08, dams<buildsystem-daemon at mageia.org>  wrote:
+>>>> dams<dams>  1.1.11-3.mga2:
+>>>> + Revision: 216185
+>>>> - Add 'Provides: dm' (bug #4532)
+>>>
+>>> This is wrong IMHO as the only packages that requires or suggest dm are:
+>>> - xguest
+>>> - task-xfce-minimal
+>>>
+>>> xguest didn't work with xdm and task-xfce-minimal had better require the dm it
+>>> wants like task-gnome&  task-kde do
+>>>
+>>> So I think this should be reverted. Let's fix task-xfce-minimal instead.
+>>
+>> Which brings back the question, which of our dms should provide dm?
+> 
+> None ?
+> 
+> After all, if dm is used for xguest, the provides used should reflect
+> that.
+...
+> So what is it used for, except asking question to users ( and most that
+> would not care or not know what it mean ) ?
+
+Just as a comment, fedora uses a virtual provides for display managers
+in it's prefdm script. We don't use that, but it's maybe worth keeping
+for that reason?
+
+e.g. see the rpm bits here:
+http://colin.guthr.ie/git/initscripts/tree/prefdm
+
+Like I say, our prefdm is not using this approach, and in my opinion, dm
+packages should drop a config file in e.g. /etc/X11/dm.d/ or similar and
+we can use that when starting X stuff rather than hardcoding it all in
+prefdm...
+
+Col
+
+
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