gdmflexiserver compat issues

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

Hey,

I've discovered the gdmflexiserver compat layer in 0.9.3 and I'm not really sure it's really for prime time. First, it currently installs itself to /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm/gdmflexiserver, looks like there is a duplicate.

Second, to be able to have this script called, it adds PKGLIBEXEC_DIR to the PATH. I don't think anything in /usr/lib should end up in the PATH, if the scripts has to be called, then it needs to be installed in the PATH, so make it /usr/bin. Yes that means conflicting with gdm, but you're not sure who will change the PATH later anyway so you're not sure /usr/bin won't be before that /usr/lib in the PATH.

Right now, I'm not sure there's a perfect solution, but please at least fix the PATH issue.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey Michael, do you have any comment on that since you added the feature? I'm trying to think how we could handle the $PATH thing better, options I can think about are not optimal though:
- make gdm and lightdm conflict
- dpkg-divert gdmflexiserver in lightdm by a wrapper which has a "if gdm is running run that binary, if lightdm is running that one" logic
- ship the said wrapper in a package common to both gdm and lightdm and have those to depends on it

but ideally GNOME would move away from calling a binary and use a dbus service of some sort

[Yves-Alexis Perez (corsac)]

An alternative might work too.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

gdmflexiserver support was dropped.