On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 07:59 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Monday 28 March 2005 06:11 am, Digby Tarvin wrote: > > Here is another basic gentoo newbie question - what is the logic > > behind the way runlevels work in gentoo?? > > > > ---snip--- > > By now you've found the docs at gentoo.org... So I'll just be offering my > opinion to this thread. > > (...one second while I don my flame proof shorts...) > While many tout the current runlevel scheme as one of the strengths of > gentoo. > I on the other hand point out that this is one of gentoo's weaknesses.
Agree! > Breaking away from a more traditional sysv runlevel logic, relying instead on > dependencies IN the startup scripts is... well.. not logical and can be > downright confusing. Gentoo is the only distribution that I've used that does Agree! > this madness. If it were an easy task to rip it out and pop a more > traditional runlevel scheme in it's place... I would jump at it. I've looked Agreeeee!!! > into doing it myself at one time.I even had some success, but like everyone > else on this list, I have to work too. But it's doable, maybe even via an > ebuild too. > Should be (at least) on the wishlist. > (now to moderate the flames) > That said, Gentoo has been the most rewarding linux distribution I've > discovered and I use it in nearly 99% of my linux solutions. ... me too ;) > > Cheers. > Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
