On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 5:57 AM, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> 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.