On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 14:01 -0500, Eleanore Boyd wrote: > On 4/26/2013 1:59 PM, Kenno Han wrote: > > > It would be interesting to have a login manager in LFS. > > I bet many people will need this feature. SLiM would be a nice > > choice. > > It is lightweight and easy to use. The installation is pretty > > straightforward. > > I myself has succeeded building SLiM (simple login manager) on my > > LFS-7.0 system. > > > > > > > ...Isn't the point of LFS simply to be a start point on which to build > your own system? Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong on that, but > I'm pretty sure the point is a start point of a custom system. > > Eleanore Boyd
I believe that is correct, that the point is to produce a minimal boot-able operating that has the tools necessary to then go on and build additional software to your liking. That's how I'm treating it anyway. BlFS would not be a bad place for things like login managers. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
