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Re: add a special Provides: to all login manager packages
- From: Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>
- To: fedora-devel-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: add a special Provides: to all login manager packages
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:43:56 -0500
Chris Lumens (clumens redhat com) said:
> Anaconda needs to know whether it should set the default runlevel to 3
> or 5. We do this by determining whether or not a package containing a
> login manager has been installed. Right now we just have a list of
> packages that contain login managers. Sometimes, we get bitten by that
> - like when kdm moved to a new package, or now when we have a bug report
> regarding slim (#485789).
>
> Since hardcoded lists always suck, I'm therefore proposing that all
> packages containing a login manager include a special Provides: that we
> can query on. Then nobody ever has to come asking for a change again,
> and if package names change, it's fine.
As a corollary, something that would allow /etc/X11/prefdm to not always
be hand-edited for new options would be nice as well.
Bill
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