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Autor: Edward Bartolo
Datum:  
To: Jaromil
CC: dng
Betreff: Re: [DNG] Request for Removal of slim package from Devuan
Hi,

I am a user of SLIM. What is wrong with it? I read that it is not
being actively developed. Does it mean a project has to be
continuously developed to be used? Aren't bug reports and bug fixes
NOT enough?

Software development is like a developing animal. While growing an
animal is in rapid development but eventually it matures and
development ceases. The same thing can be said about software
development. Both a multicellular animal and software are complex and
far from perfection as BOTH suffer from imperfections and both are on
the way of continuous development.

Edward

On 25/05/2016, Jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2016, Dima Krasner wrote:
>
>>    slim is far from perfect, that's true. However, "it works" and
>>    LightDM can use both ConsoleKit and logind in the version
>>    packaged in Jessie, but prefers logind. Other DMs have a hard
>>    dependency on logind, or will in the future. We cannot rely on
>>    LightDM, in the long term.  Currently, I don't see a longterm
>>    solution to this problem, other than maintaining slim or
>>    switching to MDM.

>
> ok. well MDM seems very good and Clement was with us back in the early
> days, for sure he is not a systemd fanatic, I doubt he will put an
> hard dependency on it.
>
> worth trying and perhaps maintaining https://github.com/linuxmint/mdm
>
>
> ciao
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