[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

[Nicholas MIller]

On May 8, 2012 7:27 AM, "Stephen E. Baker" <baker.stephen.e at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 08/05/2012 5:14 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
>>
>> 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 the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date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.
>>> [snip]
>>
>>
>> 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...
>
> I had lots of issues when I used slim, but replaced it easily lxdm.  slim
isn't a default and there are lots of choices available (including other
lightweight ones) so I don't see how adding lightdm and dropping slim are
connected.
>>
>> Allan
>
>
I use slim on two systems without issue... Other than our package is out of
date