Rémy Oudompheng wrote:
On 2011/5/8 Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xsmail.com> wrote:
Hello, can anyone think of a reason the rc.d scripts are added to kdm, gdm and slim? They are not recommended by anyone & they are to be blame for occasional weird problems. The standard and IMO only way is to start them from inittab. They dont come from upstream & i dont know when they were added, i remember them being there ever since i started using Arch, they may come from CRUX or something. I am considering requesting them removal from all display managers. In [0] Pierre said some people want to keep them for backwards compatibility. Backwards compatibility is desired only when something works correctly. Thoughts?
I never used inittab to launch a display manager and always used rc-scripts, and I will never switch unless I go for systemd. I don't understand the point of removing these scripts, unless you want users to write them themselves.
If they are unsupported then yes, users who want to use them should be writing them themselves.
As far as I know, most major distributions that don't use systemd ship rc-scripts for the display managers.
Are they telling their users not to use them too?
Moreover, rc-scripts are distribution specific and I don't see how they can be provided by upstream.
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