[799] in athena10
Re: Changes to debathena-gdm-config
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Jan 8 15:00:06 2009
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:59:08 -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, Bill Cattey wrote:
> Knowing I needed to run GNOME, I picked #2, broke things, and never=20
> really clued into how, "You're just supposed to know to Run Xclient=20
> Script".
So what=E2=80=99s the bug with picking GNOME? If picking GNOME doesn=E2=80=
=99t work,=20
that=E2=80=99s 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 superfluous=
=E2=80=9D.=20
Again, I don=E2=80=99t think we should be in the business of deleting=20
=E2=80=9Csuperfluous=E2=80=9D functionality from the upstream distribution.=
And if=20
somebody wants to install, for example, KDE on their private Athena=20
workstation, we should not stop them.
Anders
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