Heads up for login managers

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Feb 12 17:27:58 UTC 2007


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:58:29AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>   
>> Because it doesn't make much sense ? If we ship 5 copies of a central 
>> piece of infrastructure,
>> it means that any change to that infrastruture becomes 50 times harder...
>>     
>
> In that case there is a flaw in the infrastructure design, like not
> enough modularity or a missing API. Every piece of fedora should be 
> replaceable with something that implements the same interface to a 
> known protocol or something like that.
>   

Thats nice in theory, but in practice, standardizing on one piece of 
infrastructure is often
the only way to get anything done. And users care a lot more about the 
fact that the default
display manager works nicely than the fact that they can switch to 20 
different display
managers...




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