'Twas brillig, and Michael Scherer at 29/02/12 17:59 did gyre and gimble: > Le mercredi 29 février 2012 à 18:44 +0100, Oliver Burger a écrit : >> Am 29.02.2012 17:34, schrieb Thierry Vignaud: >>> On 29 February 2012 17:08, dams<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> dams<dams> 1.1.11-3.mga2: >>>> + Revision: 216185 >>>> - Add 'Provides: dm' (bug #4532) >>> >>> This is wrong IMHO as the only packages that requires or suggest dm are: >>> - xguest >>> - task-xfce-minimal >>> >>> xguest didn't work with xdm and task-xfce-minimal had better require the dm >>> it >>> wants like task-gnome& task-kde do >>> >>> So I think this should be reverted. Let's fix task-xfce-minimal instead. >> >> Which brings back the question, which of our dms should provide dm? > > None ? > > After all, if dm is used for xguest, the provides used should reflect > that. ... > So what is it used for, except asking question to users ( and most that > would not care or not know what it mean ) ?
Just as a comment, fedora uses a virtual provides for display managers in it's prefdm script. We don't use that, but it's maybe worth keeping for that reason? e.g. see the rpm bits here: http://colin.guthr.ie/git/initscripts/tree/prefdm Like I say, our prefdm is not using this approach, and in my opinion, dm packages should drop a config file in e.g. /etc/X11/dm.d/ or similar and we can use that when starting X stuff rather than hardcoding it all in prefdm... Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
