In F16 gdm requires gnome-settings-daemon which requires PackageKit-glib which indirectly requires yum. That gives an unfortunate and long dependency chain for live CDs. Could you please break that chain? I don't know how the chain could be broken. Do gdm really need gnome-settings-daemon? Alternatively, if it has to be reassigned to gnome-settigns-daemon: Could PackageKit be an optional plugin to gnome-settings-daemon instead of a mandatory dependency?
gdm definitely needs gnome-settings-daemon. I could see an argument for PackageKit not requiring yum since it supports multiple backends, and I could see an argument for gnome-settings-daemon having a subpackage for optional plugins. Certainly for one-off-special-purpose spins I could imagine not wanting yum. It's hard for me to imagine wanting gdm in those scenarios either though.
(In reply to comment #1) > Certainly for one-off-special-purpose spins I could imagine not wanting yum. > It's hard for me to imagine wanting gdm in those scenarios either though. Agreed. Many/most spins don't "want" gdm but include it (by dependencies?) and just configure it to autologin. That is also a waste of resources. It was my impression that gdm also did something extra that was important and wasn't easy to live without - and apparently no other spinners has tried and succeeded in creating a spin without gdm. Can you give a hint how gdm can be bypassed completely? Is it just a matter of hacking display-manager.service or prefdm to exec gnome-session like Xsession does?
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