Re: let's talk about SLIM

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 04:08:42PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> ng0 <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > It seems to me as if SLIM can be dropped once we
> > have something else in place. Would you agree?
> 
> It would be good to keep a display manager service that is lightweight
> in terms of both resource usage, runtime-dependency closure, and
> build-dependency closure.  I'm not attached to SLiM, but I would not
> consider the existence of a GDM service to be sufficient grounds for
> removal of SLiM.
> 
> Apart from the needs of those on older hardware, or those who wish to
> build everything locally from source code, I'm not sure if we've ever
> successfully built GDM on a non-Intel system.  GDM depends on mozjs-17,
> which I've never managed to build on mips64el-linux, and it fails on
> armhf-linux too.  Fixing mozjs on mips64el-linux is probably not
> trivial, and yet I'm happily using SLiM on my Yeeloong, which is still
> the only non-Intel GuixSD system as far as I know.
> 

It apparently built once on armhf¹. As far as getting it to build on
mips64el, I got my patch for building it on aarch64 from opensuse²

¹ https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/mozjs-17.0.0.armhf-linux/all
² https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/mozjs17

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