Re: [Evolution] Evolution changed my login

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur alexion com>]

You are right, it doesn't sound like anything an MUA installation 
should change, but when I poked around my /etc/inittab, I found that it 
had been set from /usr/bin/kdm to /etc/lib/prefdm (a gnome component).  
Seems like Red Carpet assumed that, as an Evolution user, I should be 
using all Gnome stuff.  

Truthfully, I don't know WHY it was changed, but I've learned to make 
single changes to my system at a time so that if anything goes wrong, I 
know WHAT caused it.  I'm certain that it was Red Carpet that did it.

Now I didn't have Red Carpet before installing Evolution.  When 
installing Evolution I was presented with a choice of installing only 
Evolution, or the complete Ximian Desktop.  I chose Evolution only.  
During the course of installing Evolution, Red Carpet asked for 
permission to replace TWO PACKAGES -- jpilot and balsa.  I agreed to 
the changes and proceeded.  Then it went ahead and deleted 109 
PACKAGES!, including the standard pilot-link (which was replaced by 
pilot-link.ximian and gnome-pilot).  The progress indicator of the 
installer indicated that it was removing 109 packages, but I haven't 
seen a log file indicating which packages were removed.  So far, I only 
know of the 'visible' ones like the aforemention login manager change 
and pilot-link.

Not Zed, do you know if there is a log file created, and where I can 
find it?  Red Carpet/Evolution is the first open source install that 
made so many changes to my system without notifying me in advance.

Art



On Monday 25 November 2002 12:23 am, Not Zed wrote:
> This doesn't sound like anything to do with Evolution, maybe some
> other package down the line.
>
> redhat uses /etc/sysconfig/desktop or something to set the login
> manager, dont know about anything else.
>
> On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 07:55, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> >  I boot directly into state 5, with a gui login.  My default session
> > is KDE, and I think the login was kdm.  When I installed Evolution
> > with Red Carpet, it changed this login to a more primitive version
> > (possibly gdm or xdm).  Is there a way to change it back?  I can't
> > imagine that Evolution needs a particular login, and am pretty
> > annoyed at it being changed without my foreknowledge and
> > permission.

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