[Bug 239428] Review Request: slim - Simple Login Manager

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Summary: Review Request: slim - Simple Login Manager


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239428





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2007-06-17 05:11 EST -------
(In reply to comment #26)
> In this case it was simply a matter of a missing "parent directory", in that it
> only owned the themes directory and not the otherwise empry %{_datadir}/slim...

I don't really understand this comment. slim rightly owns the 
directories...

> It's clear that there are both features missing (such as PAM) and ugly hacks
> used (such my own for xinitrc) in this package, but once has to start somewhere.
 
Sure.

What do you think about my proposal about using Xsession instead 
of xinitrc?
 
> But maybe wait with the package until upstream has their pam support integrated

My opinion is that it is right for slim to be in fedora devel
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide),
but for stable releases (Fedora 7, Fedora 6) it seems to me that
we should wait for pam support. As I also said you could also
go for stable release branches, but in that case a comment
in README.fedora should state that after login the user won't
have access to most hardware. Given what flows on the fedora-devel
list it seems clear to me that many fedora contributors would find
that having a display manager without pam support in fedora stable 
releases is bad.

> ? (at the moment I haven't got a Fedora Account or the build system setup either)

Do you mean that you aren't sponsored?
Did you have a look at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/HowToGetSponsored

> Using GDM meanwhile: http://www.algonet.se/~afb/xfce/gdmlite-fedora-login.png
> If anyone else wants to take the package and fix the issues, go right ahead...

Clearly this is an upstream task.

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