[802] in athena10
Re: Changes to debathena-gdm-config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Fri Jan 9 13:28:42 2009
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 13:27:43 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
cc: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> So what=E2=80=99s the bug with picking GNOME? If picking GNOME doesn=E2=
=80=99t work, that=E2=80=99s=20
> a bug we need to fix. Let=E2=80=99s figure out how.
>
> After we do that, the extra session options are =E2=80=9Cmerely superfluo=
us=E2=80=9D. Again,=20
> I don=E2=80=99t think we should be in the business of deleting =E2=80=9Cs=
uperfluous=E2=80=9D=20
> functionality from the upstream distribution. And if somebody wants to=
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> install, for example, KDE on their private Athena workstation, we should =
not=20
> stop them.
Does anyone have additional comments on this matter?
In particular, I would like to hear an explanation of the problems that an=
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unsuspecting user may encounter after picking the =E2=80=9CGNOME=E2=80=9D o=
ption rather=20
than the =E2=80=9CRun Xclient script=E2=80=9D option.
If there isn=E2=80=99t a real problem that these gdm-config changes are sol=
ving,=20
or if it is going to take a long time to come to a conclusion on what the=
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right solution is, we should go ahead and revert the changes. It is=20
important that our trunk matches the code that we intend to deploy.
Anders
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