On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 18:19 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:17 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway
wrote:
> On 2009-02-18 at 17:14:12 -0500, Colin Walters <walters(a)verbum.org> wrote:
> > The other thing to we should do is to strongly discourage people from
> > adding more of them to Fedora. There's not a really good reason for
> > anything other than gdm and kdm to be included and supported.
>
> I'm not sure I buy this argument. Who gets to say what use cases are
> interesting to the Fedora Community? What if the next great window
> manager isn't GNOME or KDE?
>
> Sure, maybe other "dm"s might not make it into the default Fedora spins,
> but lets not start "strongly discouraging" people from writing new code
> and putting it in Fedora.
I'm sure you are going to make the same argument when rpm5 comes up for
inclusion again...
rpm5 that does not conflict with rpm nor attempt to trump the provides
for rpm? B/c that was the problem before.
I know what upstream yum has said about rpm5
what has upstream gnome said about using other lm to start gnome?
-sv