Re: [gentoo-dev] [REVIEW] News Item - 2020-10-17-display-manager-init

[Alexey Sokolov]

сб, 17 окт. 2020 г. в 23:05, Aisha Tammy <gentoo.dev@×××××.cc>:
>
> Hi,
>   I'm attaching the news item for the upcoming display-manager-init changes
>
> Thanks,
> Aisha
>
> -----------
>
> Title: New OpenRC Display Manager Initializer Scripts
> Author: Aisha Tammy <gentoo@×××××.cc>
> Posted: 2020-10-17
> Revision: 1
> News-Item-Format: 2.0

This will be shown even if no xdm was installed?

>
> There has been a refactoring of the old 'xdm' init script and its
> requirements from various packages into an independent package:
>
> gui-libs/display-manager-init
>
> This package provides the 'display-manager' startup script for
> handling your chosen display manager, without being dependent on
> Xorg server.
>
> To update to the new DM init scripts, you need to manually add the
> package in your @world set:
>
> emerge -vuDU gui-libs/display-manager-init
>
> To start using the new init scripts, change the DISPLAYMANAGER
> variable in the /etc/conf.d/display-manager to your preferred DM:
>
> DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
>
> To test the newly installed scripts, you can try to switch to
> 'display-manager' on the running computer.
> Run the following commands in a tty to test your current install:
>
> rc-service xdm stop
> rc-service display-manager start
>
> If the test succeeds, you can remove the old xdm startup script
> and add display-manager to the default runlevel:
>
> rc-update del xdm default
> rc-update add display-manager default
>
> Reboot your computer to perform a final test and check to see
> that your chosen display manager has started.

What happens if I ignore this news item and do nothing?