On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:38:29 +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: > I'm currently looking at patching the desktop tasks in taskselect to use > slim instead of lightdm (atleast until lightdm has been cleaned up to > not depend on systemd).
Slim should work fine as the default display manager. Although I personally ever so slightly prefer lightdm (only for the script hooks actually), I would be content with slim as well. It's KISS, and it works. I can switch without trouble between the two, noticing only differences in visual appearance. > Also I'm planning to replace gnome-network-manager in those tasks with wicd. As for wicd I guess it too should easily meet the requirements. Plus, (aside from the systemd aspect) it does not pull in a whole host of packages in its wake like network-manager[-gnome] does; packages which are not necessarily desirable on e.g. lean DE installations. > These changes bring us closer to our goal of not needing to install any > systemd dependencies. (There still are packages like cups and lxsession > that need to have the tie-ins to systemd excised. > > Also, these changes only effect from scratch installation of Devuan, > where tasksel is used. Installing the removed packages manually will > work just fine. So +1 for both proposals from me. Especially since, as you say, it's only about the tasksel, and it would presumably shorten the time till stable release. Cheers Urban _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
