Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:27:29 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> Cc: kde-freebsd@freebsd.kde.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] X related scripts in Xclients ports Message-ID: <4198AEC1.3020307@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <200411151500.31461.andy@athame.co.uk> References: <200411151151.33028.freebsd@redesjm.local> <200411151357.33691.lauri@kde.org> <200411151500.31461.andy@athame.co.uk>
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Andy Fawcett wrote:
>>Will you be providing all the user support for this stuff? Will
>>running kdm the normal way still be supported? How is doing this
>>easier than changing one simple line in ttys?
>
>
> I'm in complete agreement with Lauri on this one. I fail to see where
> the improvement is, and if anything it makes things worse because of
> POLA.
>
> For me, I don't want to see such a change.
I think it would be wise to first take a look (and a testdrive) of Jose's work
before roundabout dismissing it.
As the author of the kdm-stuff in the current kdebase port, I'm aware of the
flaws it has and how support-intensive it has been - Jose's doing work on this
in order to _work_ with this, so the support-question is indeed interesting
here. Also, gdm has been launched from an rc-script for quite some time now,
hence the POLA question isn't so clear cut - and depending on how Jose's
implementation actually looks like, users might never have to 'upgrade' to the
rc-script way if they choose not to.
So, please, let's be open-minded here (it's kind of weird that I of all people
have to write this, since I've been the ever-sceptic about this whole topic
before).
Thanks,
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