add a special Provides: to all login manager packages

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 19 01:52:29 UTC 2009


Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2009, 02:05 +0100 schrieb Kevin Kofler:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> 
> > On 2009-02-18 at 17:14:12 -0500, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> >> The other thing to we should do is to strongly discourage people from
> >> adding more of them to Fedora.  There's not a really good reason for
> >> anything other than gdm and kdm to be included and supported.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I buy this argument. Who gets to say what use cases are
> > interesting to the Fedora Community? What if the next great window
> > manager isn't GNOME or KDE?
> 
> While I don't think GDM and KDM are going to cut it for everyone (KDM drags
> in a lot of KDE, GDM a lot of GNOME, neither is a good solution for XFCE,
> LXDE etc.), so I do think we should support more DMs, currently the only
> DMs which actually *work* are those two.
> 
> The serious issue with all the other DMs in Fedora is that they do not
> support ConsoleKit. Thus, permissions to hardware devices are not given out
> and things just don't work. 

What is not working? Are there any DM related bugs in bz? The only one I
know is related to gdm, one of the DMs you call working.

> XDM, SLIM etc. need to be patched to support
> ConsoleKit if we want to support them properly. 

What is the use if nether xfce4-session nor lxsession-lite support
ConsoleKit?

Regards,
Christoph




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