[arch-general] Display Manager rc.d scripts

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 05/08/2011 01:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis 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

I've been running the various display managers (kdm, slim) via the rc 
script for years now, and haven't run into any problems.  Can you 
clarify what the issue is?

DR