On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Thayer Williams <thayer@archlinux.org> wrote:
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 <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Ugh! Sorry for top posting before...my greasemonkey scripts are down at the moment. Does anyone mind if I update the kde-common i686 package to remove the artwork stuff? I see Tobias is the maintainer, but he's currently away right? I'll be out for the morning, but I'd like to get this wrapped up when I get back.