Bug#554839: introduce virtual facility x-display-manager for dependency based boot system

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Bug#554839: introduce virtual facility x-display-manager for dependency based boot system

by Jonas Meurer :: Rate this Message:

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Package: xdm
Severity: normal
User: initscripts-ng-devel@...
Usertags: missing-provides

hello,

as discussed in bug #553338, it would be useful to have a virtual
facility for display mangers in order to use it in LSB headers of
initscripts.

see http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts/DebianVirtualFacilities for
more information.

all packages that provide a display manager, to my knowledge gdm, kdm,
ldm, nodm, sdm, wdm and xdm, need to provide a file at
/etc/insserv.conf.d/<package> with the following content:

$x-display-manager <service_name>

for your particular package (xdm) this would be:

$x-display-manager xdm

in /etc/insserv.conf.d/xdm

greetings,
 jonas


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