Heads up for login managers

[Matthias Clasen]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:39:02AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>   
>> Consider that kdm uses (some of) the stuff from /etc/X11/xdm/, namely
>> Xaccess, Xresources, Xservers, Xsetup, etc...
>>     
>
> And so does wdm. This allows to avoid duplication of code.
>
> And also I can't see why we shouldn't ship xdm, or any other display 
> manager.
>   

Because it doesn't make much sense ? If we ship 5 copies of a central 
piece of infrastructure,
it means that any change to that infrastruture becomes 50 times harder...