On Sat, 25 Dec 2010 09:12:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> 
 wrote:
> That is strange. In my test installs of SL alpha3, yum did find gdm 
> on
> both i386 and x86_64 platforms. That is, I did a minimal install in
> both cases and installed "Desktop" using yum (from the SL site). gdm
> was installed just fine.

 If I am not mistaken, you install SL without gdm (from the DVD).
 And by installing it afterwards, it gets pulled from the "os" repo 
 (which has more packages than the DVD has).

 Regards,
 Patrick

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