On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote: > Hello everybody, > > slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate > greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user > privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest > packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box. > Though lately the SVN got some commits and a new version has been released > the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in > February. > > I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and > lightdm-gtk-greeter. This is a very active project with responsive upstream > developer. Security is a key feature and it integrates with latest desktop > techniques really well. The AUR package for lightdm has 259 votes at the time > of writing. > > Any thoughts on that? https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=slim Seems to be a severe lack of bug reports made if there are so many issues with it... Allan
