Comment # 30 on bug 1176195 from Denis Kondratenko

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #28)
> > I don't like that, first of all that is mostly was needed for X sessions and probably stay so historically. And why I need xdm when the goal to have X free DE, everything working through systemd natively instead of going through xdm script sounds better IMHO.
> 
> 'liking' is no argument to break complete environments. We build a whole
> distro with choice of DE for the user, going as far as co-existing
> environments on one machine. Every DE / DM will have to adhere to this or
> they are not nice citizens in the openSUSE eco system.

sure, but what is the argument of xdm for everything then? Or maybe I got it
wrong, and something works differently through 'alternatives'?

And I am not making the argument for breaking stuff, I agree I broke it and it
is already fixed in the recent package.


> 
> > I think I just skip "alternatives" and add systemd-preset to enable greetd if that would be accepted.
> 
> Only the systemd preset packages are allowed to install presets. No other
> package is allowed to do so. 

yes: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/833801

Comment # 29 on bug 1176195 from Denis Kondratenko

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #28)
> > I don't like that, first of all that is mostly was needed for X sessions and probably stay so historically. And why I need xdm when the goal to have X free DE, everything working through systemd natively instead of going through xdm script sounds better IMHO.
> 
> 'liking' is no argument to break complete environments. We build a whole
> distro with choice of DE for the user, going as far as co-existing
> environments on one machine. Every DE / DM will have to adhere to this or
> they are not nice citizens in the openSUSE eco system.

sure, but what is the argument of xdm for everything then? Or maybe I got it
wrong, and something works differently through 'alternatives'?

And I am not making the argument for breaking stuff, I agree I broke it and it
is already fixed in the recent package.


> 
> > I think I just skip "alternatives" and add systemd-preset to enable greetd if that would be accepted.
> 
> Only the systemd preset packages are allowed to install presets. No other
> package is allowed to do so. 

yes: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/833801