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Re: [debian-knoppix] Analyzing Knoppix extra stuff (Was: knoppix/bootcd like software?)



On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:32:25PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 01:25:14PM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> > i kind of like having an initscript that does this, as i agree with your
> > second point too.  perhaps the autologin package could use a renaming,
> > like knoppixdm or something, because really it's doing the job of xdm/kdm
> > but just skipping the detail of getting the password.
> >
> i consider this highly useless. :)
> kdm in auto-login mode is extremely lightweight. it does not require any
> kde or qt libraries (essentially it's only the xdm core). still you have
> the option of multi-session, xdmcp and "proper" logins.

unfortunately, even if it doesn't actually depend on the libraries:

balthasar[~]13:58:11$ apt-cache show kdm | grep Depends
Depends: kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.1.1), ...

debian seems to think it does.  and i think it'd be horribly silly
to have to install kdelibs just for kdm, if i'm an fvwm user.  what i
think would  be better is to look at what klaus is doing and see what is
and isn't really necessary.  if you want really lightweight, you can go
with an entry in inittab like i described in the previous email


	sean

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