Re: [Evolution] Evolution changed my login

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

1) What distribution are you running?
2) When you say "Red Carpet", do you perhaps mean the Ximian Installer?
If you're not clear on the distinction, can you indicate how you
launched this program?

-Mark Gordon

On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 07:32, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> 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.
-- 
Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>