add a special Provides: to all login manager packages

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Tue Feb 17 17:39:47 UTC 2009


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:09:47PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler at chello.at) said: 
> > >    Provides: login(display)
> > 
> > What about:
> > Provides: runlevel(5)
> 
> If at some point in the future, runlevel becomes a meaningless construct,
> that dependency may not be logical.
> 
> 5 is, after all, an arbitrary tradition that isn't even required by
> the LSB.

I agree, I think it is better to stick on a conceptual graphical
login manager versus console based (or even head-less) login manager.
something like login(display) (or login(graphical), or whatever) could
still be extended later with login(somethingelse).

--
Pat




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