David Griffith writes: > I'm aware of that technique. What I was talking about is a menu > option that pops up when the install is running that explicitly asks > the person installing which init to use.
But there are far more urgent questions that don't get asked at install time either: 1. Which editor to use at the default editor. (Even worse: emacs isn't even included in the install by default!) 2. Which shell to use as the login shell. I still have to install my favorite shell (zsh) manually :-( 3. Which web browser to install. Not everyone prefers Firefox. 4. Which mail user agent to install. I can go on. All have to be chosen after install and I don't think there is a good reason the init system should be special: likely a larger number people cares more about the software they use all the time. So if anything, one should probably ask about that. Ansgar