[LightDM] Hard dependency on AccountsService

Robert Ancell robert.ancell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 18:50:57 PDT 2011


On 18 August 2011 11:43, PCMan <pcman.tw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Putting something in git.freedesktop.org does not automatically make it a
> standard.
> I did not remember that poeple had consensus on this one.

No, and it's no more of a standard that LightDM is.  It's very new, so
I don't think it'd been widely discussed yet.

> Unless this gets wide adoption, adding a hard dependence to this is not a
> good idea.

Sure, and if it doesn't get wide adoption then LightDM will continue
to support both cases.

> It can be an optional feature, but at least for LXDE, I do not think that we
> should rely on this.

Is LXDE opposed to the concept or the particular implementation?


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