[Mageia-dev] About dm

[Michael Scherer]

Le vendredi 17 février 2012 à 16:20 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> Op vrijdag 17 februari 2012 15:15:37 schreef Michael Scherer:
> [...]
> > Because no one never documented exactly what is needed to be providing
> > dm, or what it exactly mean.
> > 
> > Does it mean to be one of the choice of the prefdm service ?
> > Does it mean to be able to understand /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ ?
> > Ant others need to be seen as dm ? Where would it have impact, in
> > drakdm, somewhere ?
> > 
> > Without enough formalism in the interaction of rpms, this is just gonna
> > be a hack. People will add provides, will change stuff, without any
> > consistency, and curiously, that later cause issues.
> 
> ok, so you mean we need a documented wiki policy page regarding dm 
> elegibility?

Not elegibility, knowing what should be done on a package level to be
able to be a alternative to the others packages providing 'dm'.

Likewise, the same should be done for httpd, sendmail-command etc. 


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Michael Scherer