Re: port-amd64/57236 (Gude, 9.8, https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-x.html#chap-x-xdm is wrong)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR xsrc/57236; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/57236 (Gude, 9.8,
 https://netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-x.html#chap-x-xdm is wrong)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:06:55 -0500

 On Fri, 2023-02-24 at 17:30 +0000, Marek Kozlowski wrote:
 > =C2=A0:-)
 > =C2=A0
 > =C2=A0I'd really appreciate if there was lightdm in future releases. xdm =
 is
 > a bit, let's say... vintage...
 >=20
 
 It's very unlikely we'd ever have lightdm in xbase, as it requires
 glib2, Python, and such. It of course could be placed in pkgsrc proper,
 along with SDDM. (We do have SLiM in pkgsrc, though I can't vouch for
 its current state.) Agreed xdm is probably not the best option here.
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave