[arch-general] drop slim in favor of lightdm

[Allan McRae]

On 08/05/12 18:35, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> slim has some known security weaknesses (for example it has no separate
> greeter process thus the graphical interface is running with super user
> privileges) and a lot of open bugs. Additionally it does not support latest
> packages (consolekit and friends) out of the box.
> Though lately the SVN got some commits and a new version has been released
> the arch package has not been updated since it was flagged out of date in
> February.
> 
> I propose to drop slim from [extra] and replace it with lightdm and
> lightdm-gtk-greeter. This is a very active project with responsive upstream
> developer. Security is a key feature and it integrates with latest desktop
> techniques really well. The AUR package for lightdm has 259 votes at the time
> of writing.
> 
> Any thoughts on that?


https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=slim

Seems to be a severe lack of bug reports made if there are so many
issues with it...

Allan