On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 18:05 -0400, Aisha Tammy wrote: > Hi, > I'm attaching the news item for the upcoming display-manager-init changes > > Thanks, > Aisha > > ----------- > > Title: New OpenRC Display Manager Initializer Scripts > Author: Aisha Tammy <gen...@aisha.cc> > Posted: 2020-10-17 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 2.0 > > There has been a refactoring of the old 'xdm' init script and its > requirements from various packages into an independent package: > > gui-libs/display-manager-init > > This package provides the 'display-manager' startup script for > handling your chosen display manager, without being dependent on > Xorg server. > > To update to the new DM init scripts, you need to manually add the > package in your @world set: > > emerge -vuDU gui-libs/display-manager-init > > To start using the new init scripts, change the DISPLAYMANAGER > variable in the /etc/conf.d/display-manager to your preferred DM: > > DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm" >
Do you really think a rename for the sake of renaming justifies requiring all users to rewrite their configuration? While we're requiring the users to do that, wouldn't it be better to stop using the awful layout of 'one script to run them all', and switch to separate scripts for every DM? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
