Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Tue, 2012/05/08 19:14: > 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 the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in 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... The upstream bug tracker [0] has a lot more... And for some of them patches exist [1] but never got included. However, I would not mind to keep it. But I vote for moving lightdm to [extra] or [community] as well. [0] http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=2663 [1] http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?group_id=2663 -- main(a,b){char*/* Schoene Gruesse */c="B?IJj;M" "EHCX:;";for(a/* Chris get my mail address: */=0;b=c[a++];) putchar(b-1/(/* gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig */b/42*2-3)*42);}
