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On 10/11/20 5:07 AM, Hans Fernhout wrote: |
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> On 10/10/20 2:26 PM, Aisha Tammy wrote: |
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>>>> - Configuration of display-manager is done similar to xdm by modifying |
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>>>> /etc/conf.d/display-manager |
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>>>> - Add display-manager to default runlevel and it should start working |
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>>> My counter-proposal at this point would be to handle DMs similarily to |
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>>> how it's done with systemd. In other words, every DM would provide their |
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>>> own init and conf files (or, "service" files) and they'd be controlled |
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>> This is quite hard as openrc manages tty handling differently than |
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>> systemd. |
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>> Currently display-managers work by adding an extra run level in openrc |
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>> (see https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/16554/files#diff-6d89a718d595e0c0516c6d6b96bd4cd5R21) |
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>> It is not possible to do this independently for each of lightdm/gdm/sddm |
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>> separately, there would be too much redundant copying of code. |
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> Would this not be resolved by switching to openrc-init instead of systemv init? |
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Gentoo is about choice and we can't (and don't want to) enforce the fact that |
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people should use openrc-init while we have a compatible solution to work with both. |
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Aisha |
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