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[Lionel Le Folgoc <lionel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Perhaps we should split the config into a separate package? That way there's 
> a lightdm-config-ubuntu and a lightdm-config-xubuntu package (the both would
> obviously have to conflict with eachother).

This is overkill to create packages for only one conffile, and probably a mess 
to deal with on upgrades or when you install the other variant (and that 
doesn't look like a sane use of conflicts).

> Errors in the patch:
> - The exec line is missing --config
> - Has tabs instead of spaces

No:
- "-c" is used, according to the manpage, it has the same meaning...
- then fix the orig files? because they already contain a mix of tabs and
  spaces
  
> I think a better solution would be to allow lightdm to parse the standard
> conf by default, and then parse the vendor conf for any "override" values for
> things in the standard conf. That keeps all other tools just having to look
> at a single file.

Yes, similar to what Didier did for gdm (set-default-session). This is much 
better. But given the time needed to review the tiny patch above (and the
review), I'm not very inclined to start working on a more complicated one...

I guess I'll forget any attempt to do this cleanly and go back to the
dpkg-divert way. Feel free to close this bug report.

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Title:
  Please let vendors easily provide their own config

Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: lightdm

  Hi,

  Could you register lightdm.conf in the alternatives system? This would
  let derivatives set another default config easily (as done with gdm),
  and avoid the dpkg-divert nightmare that is going with gdm3.

  (currently, daily builds of xubuntu don't start any session because
  lightdm tries to start gnome which doesn't exist...)

  Thanks.

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