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.
There are two perspectives- it is a problem, or it is flexible. Some people never want to touch /etc/inittab and do all their config in rc.conf, so the rc.d script works for them. Those that are more interested in the workings of runlevels and init-spawned processes would use inittab. We've always supported both and our overhead is minimal to support it, so we could maybe go and edit the wiki to make it more clear that inittab is the preferred way, but I don't think we should exert more force than that. -Dan