So long as *someone* is willing to maintain the the rc.d scripts, I'm fine with keeping them around. Personally, I have always used the inittab method--I think it _is_ documented somewhere as The Best Way To Do Things =)
If we ever reach a point where devs don't want to maintain this kind of fluff, we could look at the deprecating the scripts as mentioned. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Pierre Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> One should start kdm via inittab. >>> >>> I agree with Pierre, except for the rc.d script point - too many >>> people use it, and all the other login managers have rc.d scripts to. >>> >>> >> >> Isn't there a little problem here? >> People should use inittab, yet many people use rc.d scripts. >> It is probably not a big deal since I guess both methods usually work >> fine, but maybe it should be somehow made clearer that inittab is the >> preferred way. >> For example by deprecating the rc.d scripts and planning a future >> removal instead of removing them now. > > Who said people should use inittab? Is this documented somewhere as > The Only Way To Ever Do Things? I use the slim rc.d script and have > for ages. I don't see anything wrong with providing choice. > >
