eselect news - 2021-01-30-display-manager-init

[figueroa]

I'm scanning this thread only and may have missed important details, but...

Brand new Gentoo VM instance. Fully synced. Installed Xfce, Slim. Read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Display_manager about XDM being deprecated. Attempted to install gui-libs/display-manager-init but find there are no stable versions. Added to accept_keywords, only to find blockers. News article or no, this is a fully unacceptable situation. Incidentally, XDM emerges without any of these nonsensical issues.

gui-libs/display-manager-init is clearly not ready to be called "stable" in any sane interpretation of the word.

At this time (4/4/2021) the following are needed, together, on amd64:

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=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.98-r1 ~amd64
=x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1-r1 ~amd64
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10-r3 ~amd64
=gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3 ~amd64

I've made this transition. It works fine. It's not "stable" but it is safe to do.

The xdm init script that is/was provided by xorg-server is not the same as the xdm display manager x11-apps/xdm. See: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xdm for further info about that. I know -- two xdm things can lead to confusion. I was confused for years about that.