On Friday 08 August 2003 20:25, Duncan wrote: > On Fri 08 Aug 2003 16:14, Greg Meyer posted as excerpted below: > > On Friday 08 August 2003 02:21 am, Laurent Montel wrote: > > > > kdebase requires kdm, meaning you can't install kde without kdm/mdkdm > > > > > > kdebase will require all the time kdm. > > > > Doesn't it make more sense for kdebase to require dm and have all of the > > kdm/gdm/xdm/mdkkdm provide dm? Especially if mdkkdm and kdebase-kdm are > > separate packages. > > Why require a dm at all? There are those of us who prefer booting init 3, > then starting kde from a console, avoiding the dm.
For those of us who know that we also know we could force the removal. It's probably not a good idea for a newbie to not get a dm - and not requiring one would allow them to forget - or deselect one not knowing how important it would be to a new windows or mac convert. -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 1796276 pgp: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc resume: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/resume.doc
