From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: let's talk about SLIM
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 18:33:40 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170828153340.GE1618@macbook42.flashner.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pobgkc39.fsf@netris.org>
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 04:08:42PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org> writes:
>
> > It seems to me as if SLIM can be dropped once we
> > have something else in place. Would you agree?
>
> It would be good to keep a display manager service that is lightweight
> in terms of both resource usage, runtime-dependency closure, and
> build-dependency closure. I'm not attached to SLiM, but I would not
> consider the existence of a GDM service to be sufficient grounds for
> removal of SLiM.
>
> Apart from the needs of those on older hardware, or those who wish to
> build everything locally from source code, I'm not sure if we've ever
> successfully built GDM on a non-Intel system. GDM depends on mozjs-17,
> which I've never managed to build on mips64el-linux, and it fails on
> armhf-linux too. Fixing mozjs on mips64el-linux is probably not
> trivial, and yet I'm happily using SLiM on my Yeeloong, which is still
> the only non-Intel GuixSD system as far as I know.
>
It apparently built once on armhf¹. As far as getting it to build on
mips64el, I got my patch for building it on aarch64 from opensuse²
¹ https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/mozjs-17.0.0.armhf-linux/all
² https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/mozjs17
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-28 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-26 21:32 let's talk about SLIM ng0
2017-08-27 20:08 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-08-27 23:40 ` Adam Van Ymeren
2017-08-28 15:33 ` Efraim Flashner [this message]
2017-08-30 8:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-08-30 9:18 ` ng0
2017-08-30 9:26 ` ng0
2017-09-01 22:34 ` Bernd S.
2017-09-03 4:07 ` Adam Van Ymeren
2017-09-02 9:40 ` Mark H Weaver
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