You are right, it doesn't sound like anything an MUA installation should change, but when I poked around my /etc/inittab, I found that it had been set from /usr/bin/kdm to /etc/lib/prefdm (a gnome component). Seems like Red Carpet assumed that, as an Evolution user, I should be using all Gnome stuff.
Truthfully, I don't know WHY it was changed, but I've learned to make single changes to my system at a time so that if anything goes wrong, I know WHAT caused it. I'm certain that it was Red Carpet that did it. Now I didn't have Red Carpet before installing Evolution. When installing Evolution I was presented with a choice of installing only Evolution, or the complete Ximian Desktop. I chose Evolution only. During the course of installing Evolution, Red Carpet asked for permission to replace TWO PACKAGES -- jpilot and balsa. I agreed to the changes and proceeded. Then it went ahead and deleted 109 PACKAGES!, including the standard pilot-link (which was replaced by pilot-link.ximian and gnome-pilot). The progress indicator of the installer indicated that it was removing 109 packages, but I haven't seen a log file indicating which packages were removed. So far, I only know of the 'visible' ones like the aforemention login manager change and pilot-link. Not Zed, do you know if there is a log file created, and where I can find it? Red Carpet/Evolution is the first open source install that made so many changes to my system without notifying me in advance. Art On Monday 25 November 2002 12:23 am, Not Zed wrote: > This doesn't sound like anything to do with Evolution, maybe some > other package down the line. > > redhat uses /etc/sysconfig/desktop or something to set the login > manager, dont know about anything else. > > On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 07:55, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > > I boot directly into state 5, with a gui login. My default session > > is KDE, and I think the login was kdm. When I installed Evolution > > with Red Carpet, it changed this login to a more primitive version > > (possibly gdm or xdm). Is there a way to change it back? I can't > > imagine that Evolution needs a particular login, and am pretty > > annoyed at it being changed without my foreknowledge and > > permission. -- _______________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexion.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution