I've opened a PR which restores gdm/X11 support at: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gdm/pull-request/28#
It builds, I'll be able to test it in a few hours, but anybody is free and welcome to give it a try once the scratch build finishes. On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski via devel < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Friday, 11 April 2025 at 10:01, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > [...] > > Yes, that sounds like an accurate description of how things would have > gone, > > had somebody started the process! But it seems that this window has > > closed already, because of the decision to release F42 on Thursday. > Reverting > > the changes in Gnome would have required a respinning of the release > > images and a delay of the release. I don't think we'd want to do that. > > An unapproved major change was done and yes, that is what should be > done. > > > But even apart from that, even if this was raised sooner, > > I would be against such a big change so late in the process anyway. > > Wait, what?! The unapproved change must be reverted as soon as possible. > Otherwise the Change process becomes a joke. The big change was done > without approval, so it doesn't matter if it was noticed late or not. > > > Two options have been floated: > > - a separate gdm-x11 package: certainly an option, but a bit of work, > > and upstream might drop the X11 code anyway. > > - switching to a different login manager. I think this option is better > > and has better long-term prospects. Folks who use X11 should make > > a recommendation what to switch to. > > No and no. GDM maintainer must take responsibility, even if applying the > unapproved change was unintentional, and revert it now. > > Regards, > Dominik > -- > Fedora https://fedoraproject.org > Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe > that > makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. > -- from "The Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan > -- > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue > -- Best regards / S pozdravem, František Zatloukal Senior Quality Engineer Red Hat
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