On 26-Nov-07, at 11:36 AM, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> John Sonnenschein wrote:
>> On 26-Nov-07, at 11:26 AM, Stefan Teleman wrote:
>>> John Sonnenschein wrote:
>>>> On 26-Nov-07, at 11:05 AM, Stefan Teleman wrote:
>>>>> Both KDE3 and KDE4 have their own display manager -- kdm.
>>>> I know, but then it has KDE dependencies. I'm hoping to find
>>>> something that has neither GNOME or KDE dependencies so that
>>>> both camps can be made happy
>>>
>>> kdm has dependencies on libX11.so, libXext.so, libXau.so,
>>> libXdmcp.so, libsocket.so, libresolv.so, and the optional security/
>>> authentication libraries: MIT KRB5, pam, rpcsvc. It doesn't have
>>> any dependencies on KDE libraries.
>> Really? I didn't know that.
>> Is this the case for kdm4 as well?
>
> Yes.
Cool, whereas....
$ ldd gdm-binary
libsocket.so.1 => /lib/libsocket.so.1
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1
libpam.so.1 => /lib/libpam.so.1
libwrap.so.1 => /usr/sfw/lib/libwrap.so.1
libcmd.so.1 => /usr/lib/libcmd.so.1
libsecdb.so.1 => /lib/libsecdb.so.1
libbsm.so.1 => /lib/libbsm.so.1
libdevinfo.so.1 => /lib/libdevinfo.so.1
libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/openwin/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
libXau.so.6 => /usr/openwin/lib/libXau.so.6
libX11.so.4 => /usr/openwin/lib/libX11.so.4
libXext.so.0 => /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
libc.so.1 => /lib/libc.so.1
libmp.so.2 => /lib/libmp.so.2
libmd.so.1 => /lib/libmd.so.1
libscf.so.1 => /lib/libscf.so.1
libast.so.1 => /usr/lib/libast.so.1
libtsol.so.2 => /lib/libtsol.so.2
libnvpair.so.1 => /lib/libnvpair.so.1
libsec.so.1 => /lib/libsec.so.1
libgen.so.1 => /lib/libgen.so.1
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/
libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0
libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2
libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/
libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
libXfixes.so.1 => /usr/sfw/lib/libXfixes.so.1
libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2
libXi.so.5 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.5
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.so.2
libmlib.so.2 => /usr/lib/libmlib.so.2
libuutil.so.1 => /lib/libuutil.so.1
libavl.so.1 => /lib/libavl.so.1
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/sfw/lib/libfreetype.so.6
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/sfw/lib/libXrender.so.1
libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0
/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000/lib/libc_psr.so.1
/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000/lib/libmd_psr.so.1
/usr/lib/cpu/sparcv9+vis2/libmlib.so.2
eww.
So, why use GDM instead of KDM then? Other than "because it's there" ?
