-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/23/2011 03:26 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > 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 > Not to difficult to provide. You have a dependency for a dm, and any of the dm packages satisfy it. Like you do with a mail server now. You could then use the alternate selection tool to select the dm you want to use. But you do get a dm installed that you do not use if you normally start X from the cli. Mikkel - -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6keZcACgkQqbQrVW3JyMShwgCfcw1lYzH81HYUYtsxAkn0CQrX H7AAn2C2krtELHrAZt3aFhDsOzasWdI+ =RI// -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
