Hi Laca,
Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 14:08 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
>
[...]
>> Why is the gdm login dependent on these services? Will gdm itself fail?
>>
>
> I'm not sure all of these should really be dependencies of gdm, but
> since gdm uses GNOME libs some of them definitely should be.
> For example without pixbuf loaders, I doubt that gdm would be
> able to start. The gconf settings may be needed for starting
> accessibility at login.
>
>
>> Or will
>> a gnome session just be degraded. If the latter, then for one you
>> don't need to lock
>> users of kde, wmaker, or twm, or whatever, out just because a bit of gnome
>> failed; for another I would much rather have the system do its best
>> and let me log in
>> to fix it rather than just sulk.
>>
>
> Right. We should be able to check for some of these features
> in the gnome-session rather than in gdm, I think we should review
> that.
>
As you pointed out gdm can be badly broken if some of the services are
run not before it. Beside from the
smf point of view I don't see how to put a dependency on all apps using
either gconf or gtk....
[...]
Thanks,
Erwann
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