While I don't have a firm opinion about this, I tend to disagree with you. I have always been using the rc.d scripts and find they work fine.
As far as I know the only problem that the daemon method has is the "boot to runlevel S to fix" problem. So if you edit your xorg.conf file impropelly, so that its contains errors, or you get powerloss during update/install f X components, so that the xorg cant start. You need to boot into single-user mode so that you can remove ?gdm? from daemons list, so that you can boot propelly to console. If your xorg wont start on boot you wont get a console, only a infinite loop of xorg trying to start. But if you use runlevel 5 for ?gdm? it will only try to start the xorg 5 times and if it fails it will fall back to console, so that you ?can? fix the problem. :D -- (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)