add a special Provides: to all login manager packages

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 18 23:25:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:19 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:17 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On 2009-02-18 at 17:14:12 -0500, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> wrote:
> > > The other thing to we should do is to strongly discourage people from
> > > adding more of them to Fedora.  There's not a really good reason for
> > > anything other than gdm and kdm to be included and supported.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I buy this argument. Who gets to say what use cases are
> > interesting to the Fedora Community? What if the next great window
> > manager isn't GNOME or KDE?
> > 
> > Sure, maybe other "dm"s might not make it into the default Fedora spins,
> > but lets not start "strongly discouraging" people from writing new code
> > and putting it in Fedora.
> 
> I'm sure you are going to make the same argument when rpm5 comes up for
> inclusion again...

rpm5 that does not conflict with rpm nor attempt to trump the provides
for rpm? B/c that was the problem before.

I know what upstream yum has said about rpm5

what has upstream gnome said about using other lm to start gnome?

-sv






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