Bug#166497: x-window-system: should depend on x-display-manager instead of xdm

[Agthorr <agthorr@barsoom.org>]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 09:57:10PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:32:11AM -0700, Agthorr wrote:
> > Package: x-window-system
> > Version: 4.1.0-16
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > The x-window-system should depend on x-display-manager (provided by
> > xdm, gdm, kdm, and wdm) instead of on xdm.
> 
> How is this anything more than a wishlist bug?  

Feel free to demote it.  I'm willing to admit to being anal-retentive ;)

> What's going to win if NOTHING is installed, which is when people
> are going to be installing x-window-system in the first place.

If you make it depend on "xdm | x-display-manager", it will default to
xdm, yes?

> Xdm is the XFree-provided display manager.  Install another if you want
> another.  All the display managers can co-exist.

It'd be nice to be able to uninstall xdm.

It's not a big deal, but it seems like it'd also be easy to change.

-- Agthorr