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Date:      Sun, 16 Jul 2000 17:25:46 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, "Andrew M. Miklic" <miklic@attglobal.net>
Subject:   Re: GDM
Message-ID:  <XFMail.000716172546.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000716152401.I535@argon.gryphonsoft.com>

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On 16-Jul-00 Will Andrews wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 01:24:05PM -0600, Andrew M. Miklic wrote:
>>     I'm relatively new to FreeBSD and the ports collection, but I was
>> surprised could not find a port for the GNOME desktop manager (gdm)
>> since it is available for OpenBSD and NetBSD, and so I have been using
>> kdm for a graphical login manager--is gdm available for FreeBSD?
> 
> Make a port for it.  I'm sure it is not a difficult job, but I don't
> care since I use wdm just fine.  :-)

Actually, it's not an easy thing to port.  I tried for a while, but even with
some hints from the author, I finally gave up.

It *would* be a nice thing to have in the ports collection, though.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier
http://members.home.net/conrads/
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