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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".
>=20
> What makes it more complicated / time consuming with xdm is that
> you need to figure out the service for it.
>=20
> 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.

=E2=80=94Marco