Bling!

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Thu Feb 16 18:08:33 UTC 2006


Hi,

> Is there any particular reason gdm (and kdm for that matter) don't
> simply default to /usr/bin/X?  It's supposed to be the default X
> server, which seems a better way to handle it IMHO.  Then one merely
> need point the /usr/bin/X symlink to the server of choice, in theory
> at least.
The problem I think is that you can't have a package own the symlink
(because then if you changed it rpm -V would shout, etc), so that leaves
making it in %post.  But doing it in %post has issues anyway (think
about shared /usr).  

--Ray




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