Re: GDM status (again)

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Timothy Sample <address@hidden> skribis:

> Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Do we really need a compile-time dependency (GDM in master doesn’t
>>> depend on gnome-shell, after all), or can we just have a hard-coded
>>> /run/current-system/bin/gnome-shell somewhere?  Granted, that’s not very
>>> elegant, but it might be good enough?
>>>
>>> Also, one can use GDM without using GNOME, so it would be best if GDM
>>> didn’t depend on GNOME.
>>
>> This might be fine (and is what I was trying to do).  However this would
>> mean that the GDM service should ensure that gnome-shell is there, which
>> in practice is like having a dependency on GNOME or at least on
>> gnome-shell.  My understanding is that GDM uses gnome-shell as the login
>> greeter process, so you really can't use GDM without GNOME -- of course
>> you can log in to some non-GNOME session but GDM itself will use
>> gnome-shell.  Given that's the case, might as well depend on gnome-shell
>> explicitly.
>
> That’s my understanding too. GDM needs gnome-shell to run the greeter
> interface.

Oh I didn’t know that.  I agree then, it’s best to explicitly depend on it.

Thank you!

Ludo’.