[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 afb at users.sourceforge.net  2007-06-17 05:25 EST -------
(In reply to comment #27)

> > 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...

What I meant was that it was a simple packaging ommision, and nothing regarding
how directories or slashes are treated by RPM. Added the parent, all's well.

> What do you think about my proposal about using Xsession instead 
> of xinitrc?

Sounds good. (haven't tried it yet)

> 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.

Rawhide it is then.

> > ? (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

I think so ? Package is reviewed/approved (Comment #19), so that would probably
be next ?


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