On 26 Nov 14:06 ng0 wrote: > I have bits of an xdm package somewhere in my vault/archive of > "packages to send to guix once I find time to contribute again". > > What makes it more complicated / time consuming with xdm is that > you need to figure out the service for it. > > If you or anyone else wants to work on it, I can send a patch (external, not > applying to > guix.git).
To be honest, I have not allocated enough time for Guix development for any significant contribution like an xdm package. I hope 2020 will be better. I hope someone else wants to work on it before that time (but in my current Guix installations the desktop manager, whichever this is, works properly). In any case, I can make time for testing Guix code if that is useful at all. > Fwiw, I looked at the work OpenBSD does with their X11 patching (for more > time than I am willing to admit), > and it's not worth to extract and re-apply the meaningful patches > for one single project. I don't get why parabola is re-purposing this X11 > work, > but OpenBSD work is usually written for OpenBSD with an underlying OpenBSD > system in mind. That's not to say their X11 is "useless", it's just useful > in OpenBSD. Point taken. Seems reasonable. —Marco
