add a special Provides: to all login manager packages

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Feb 17 19:11:33 UTC 2009


Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ivazqueznet at gmail.com) said: 
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > As a corollary, something that would allow /etc/X11/prefdm to not always
> > be hand-edited for new options would be nice as well.
> 
> How about this one? Just create a /usr/share/xdisplaymanager/foo.desktop
> containing "Exec=/usr/bin/bar" and putting DISPLAYMANAGER=FOO
> in /etc/sysconfig/desktop will make it use that.

If DISPLAYMANAGER is set, we just exec that, so we don't need changes
for that. It's the fallbacks at the end that require manual editing.

Bill




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