On Sunday 23 October 2011 21:14:17 Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/23/2011 12:55 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > How do you determine whether or not a given wm needs gdm? Any wm can > > equally well use kdm instead of gdm, so it is actually a conditional > > dependency --- "if there is no other dm installed, and if there is some > > wm which depends on the presence of a dm, don't uninstall it". > > Can you tell me one good reason that a dm should be a dependency of any wm? Well, if you intend to run a wm in runlevel 5, you do need a dm, right? The problem in my view is that this is a many-to-many mapping, so a given wm may depend on *either* a gdm or kdm or xdm or whatever, but not on any particular one of them. Although, strictly speaking, you can always boot into runlevel 3 and start your wm from there manually, so the wm doesn't strictly depend on the presence of a dm (and the formal answer to your question is "no"). However, most of the people typically boot into runlevel 5, so it makes sense to have a dm whenever you have a wm installed. For me that is a good enough reason. ;-) Best, :-) Marko -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
