[arch-general] Display Manager rc.d scripts

[Thomas Dziedzic]

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at 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?
>
> [0]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20109
>
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I agree with you and you bring up a valid point.
We should be using only one system if the other one doesn't provide
any useful benefits.
Also, what is meant by "backwards compatible" backwards compatible with what?