On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 22:11, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > On Mon, 11.07.11 15:51, Bill Nottingham (nott...@redhat.com) wrote: >> Lennart Poettering (lenn...@poettering.net) said: >> > > Sorry if I'm missing something simple or if I have confused myself >> > > beyond all hope. I appreciate any advice on how to prepare this in a >> > > future-compatible way. >> > >> > My recommendation is to simply list display-manager.service in Alias= in >> > [Install] in your unit file. Since that symlink can only point to one >> > service we should be safe. The choice which one to start is done with >> > this symlink and nothing else. >> >> While this is correct, the issue we'd have off the top of my head >> is if it's possible, in packaging, to have things automatically work >> such that: >> >> - installing multiple DMs gives you a predictable default >> - removing whatever the current default is falls back to other DMs >> that are currently installed > > If people want these problems solved one option would be to manage the > display-manager.service symlink with Debian's alternative system, but in > general I'd probably just ignore this, and just say the first > installation wins.
Guess Bill meant: install gdm -> get the link install kdm -> link fails uninstall gdm -> remove link -> kdm installed but no link Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel