Re: ANNOUNCE: GDM 2.6.0.8 (stable), the "Next Release is 2.8" release

[George <jirka 5z com>]

Just a few comments:

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:23:34PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
> that is used to just run gdmsetup.  All gdm binaries except
> gdmthemetester and gdmphotosetup will be moved to /sbin since they

gdmthemetester was intended for theme writers not for root and so SHOULD be
runnable by users.  gdmphotosetup is most definately ONLY for users since
that's the proggie they run to set their login photo.

> are really intended only to be run by root.  The gdm-binary program
> and the gdm script will be merged into one binary called gdm.

The reason for this was that if gdm is run as a binary directly from init,
then /etc/profile is not sourced causing things to behave strangely.  For one
thing gdm will revert to C locale on most linux installations no matter what
language is set up as the system language.  It's not a problem at all for
footprint since gdm-binary is exec'ed.

George

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