[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

[Christian Hesse]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> on Tue, 2012/05/08 19:14:
> On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate
> > greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user
> > privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support
> > latest packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box.
> > Though lately the SVN got some commits and a new version has been released
> > the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in
> > February.
> > 
> > I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and
> > lightdm-gtk-greeter. This is a very active project with responsive
> > upstream developer. Security is a key feature and it integrates with
> > latest desktop techniques really well. The AUR package for lightdm has
> > 259 votes at the time of writing.
> > 
> > Any thoughts on that?
> 
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=slim
> 
> Seems to be a severe lack of bug reports made if there are so many
> issues with it...

The upstream bug tracker [0] has a lot more... And for some of them patches
exist [1] but never got included.

However, I would not mind to keep it. But I vote for moving lightdm to
[extra] or [community] as well.

[0] http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?group_id=2663
[1] http://developer.berlios.de/patch/?group_id=2663
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