  Light gluinos have been suggested in order to reconcile $\alpha_s$
determinations from low energy deep inelastic experiments with those inferred
from LEP measurements. {}From this hypothesis then one expects, in unified N=1
supergravity models, that also the "photino" will be light. We show that this
possibility is not in conflict with recent LEP measurements and also that
cosmology does not necessarily rule it out in any convincing way. Moreover it
leads to $upper$ limits on the masses of the other supersymmetric fermions, for
example, the lightest chargino should be lighter than about 75 GeV}
