On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 10:19 +0100, Joachim Frieben wrote:
> gdm is the default login manager in the base X group. It
can't
> be removed from there.
>
> Bill
Rahul's position on this seems to be more coherent. When you want a
plain X environment without GNOME nor KDE [and haven't selected any of
both at install and -only- then], you simply don't want to get
bothered by any of overloaded GDM and KDM with face browser stuff and
the like and pulling in tons of additional packages you don't want to
have installed either.
XDM is a perfectly valuable and lightweight login manager. Why
wouldn't it be a valid choice when it's even shipped by upstream Xorg?
Please don't drag upstream X.org into this, xdm is a horror upstream is
glad gdm/kdm exist and merely continue shipping xdm as something for
system builders..
it isn't valuable or valid.
Dave.