On 04/26/2013 09:15 PM, Alice Wonder wrote: > 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. > >
We already have two of them - GDM and KDM. If anyone wants something else in the book, patches are welcome. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
