From: Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org>
To: ng0@n0.is
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: xdm
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 15:52:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191203155248.0b2e7f5f@gfi063209.klientdrift.uib.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191126140628.lngiqib4hfo76gwq@uptimegirl>
On 26 Nov 14:06 ng0 wrote:
> I have bits of an xdm package somewhere in my vault/archive of
> "packages to send to guix once I find time to contribute again".
>
> What makes it more complicated / time consuming with xdm is that
> you need to figure out the service for it.
>
> If you or anyone else wants to work on it, I can send a patch (external, not applying to
> guix.git).
To be honest, I have not allocated enough time for Guix development for
any significant contribution like an xdm package. I hope 2020 will be
better. I hope someone else wants to work on it before that time (but
in my current Guix installations the desktop manager, whichever this
is, works properly). In any case, I can make time for testing Guix
code if that is useful at all.
> Fwiw, I looked at the work OpenBSD does with their X11 patching (for more time than I am willing to admit),
> and it's not worth to extract and re-apply the meaningful patches
> for one single project. I don't get why parabola is re-purposing this X11 work,
> but OpenBSD work is usually written for OpenBSD with an underlying OpenBSD
> system in mind. That's not to say their X11 is "useless", it's just useful
> in OpenBSD.
Point taken. Seems reasonable.
—Marco
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-22 13:48 xdm Marco van Hulten
2019-11-26 14:06 ` xdm ng0
2019-12-03 14:52 ` Marco van Hulten [this message]
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