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The original idea behind this change (described in ticket #11064) was to improve the assertions to avoid that users of the X server accidentally forget to configure a DM or WM. However this caused several issues with setups that require X, but no DM or WM. The keymap testcases became instable as well as now disabling DMs needs to be done explicitly. (see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/31268#issuecomment-347080036) In the end the idea behind the change and #11064 was obviously a mistake, so reverting it completely for now should be fine.
Nixpkgs is a collection of packages for the Nix package manager. It is periodically built and tested by the Hydra build daemon as so-called channels. To get channel information via git, add nixpkgs-channels as a remote:
% git remote add channels git://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels.git
For stability and maximum binary package support, it is recommended to maintain
custom changes on top of one of the channels, e.g. nixos-17.09 for the latest
release and nixos-unstable for the latest successful build of master:
% git remote update channels
% git rebase channels/nixos-17.09
For pull-requests, please rebase onto nixpkgs master.
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