On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 06:53:13PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Touko Korpela <touko.korp...@iki.fi> wrote: > > Isn't it too big? > > for the live images, we've always been using gdm/gdm3 in lxde-desktop, > for the installer (via tasksel), up to squeeze, gdm was used too. > > i don't think it's to big. > > having lxdm at some later point though, is nice, and i wouldn't mind the > size decrease it bringts, however, until then the size difference > doesn't matter much. > > otoh, choosing xdm is a no-go anyway, it doesn't support autologin > (which is essential for live systems) and i don't think that the the > installer (via tasksel) should use anything different than what we do > with the live systems. > > > Shouldn't it use lightdm by default like Xfce does? > > lightdm is relatively buggy, does not reasonably support autologin yet, > and doesn't bring any advantages over gdm3. gdm3 is even smaller in > footprint size than gdm in squeeze, hence, using gdm3 in wheezy rather > than gdm in squeeze is already an improvement.
New lightdm (1.2.2-3) says to support autologin, but I haven't tested that. If you make this change, does it make Xfce+lxde CD-images try to pull Gnome depends in and make too tight to fit all? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120707174904.GA2307@tiikeri.vuoristo.local