On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:20:36AM +0100, Christopher Aillon wrote:
Joachim Frieben wrote:
>>Please don't drag upstream X.org into this, xdm is a horror upstream is
>>glad gdm/kdm exist and merely continue shipping xdm as something for
>>system builders..
>>
>>it isn't valuable or valid.
>>
>>Dave.
>
>Nevertheless, a user who simply wants a plain X environment is encumbered
>by packages he hasn't asked for [GDM + GNOME requires] without even the
>possibility to dismiss them during install.
>I suppose that a user who deliberately unchecks GNOME and KDE does know
>what he wants and does and imposing GDM onto him is against the often
>cited 'freedom of choice' unless you consider tracking down and
>uninstalling the related packages by the user post install as a reasonable
>duty.
>I have used XDM for a couple of years back when Red Hat Linux still booted
>into runlevel 3 by default, and I had no complaints about it.
Or maybe they just unchecked both because the words "GNOME" and "KDE"
mean nothing to them, coming from a win/mac background. Or maybe they
aren't used to their trackpad's behavior under linux and uncheck one of
them (both aren't checked by default, IIRC) accidentally. If the user
is truly advanced enough, there are other and IMO better ways to get the
exact package set that they want. Such as kickstart, re-spinning, etc.
This can be avoided two ways maybe:
1} One of them can be greyed out. No changes can be done i.e selected by
default;)
2} A big fat 'clear and present danger' warning can be displayed to the
user about where he/she is going to land.
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