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On Thursday 13 November 2008, Matthias Bethke wrote: |
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> Hi Volker, |
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> on Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:29:22AM +0100, you wrote: |
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> > there are people who know how to use a commandline and STILL want X. In |
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> > fact out of 100 boots I want X 99 times - and I guess most people want X |
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> > too. So just because you 'think' gentoo users don't like X, does not make |
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> > it true at all. |
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> |
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> I agree having X in the default runlevel is a good idea for the vast |
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> majority of users, even the most CLI-savvy. But having it in the boot |
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> runlevel was a major PITA when SuSE started doing it and I had to manage |
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> some installations that used NIS and LDAP. We wanted a nice user list in |
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> kdm for students to click on, and it just doesn't work if *dm starts |
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> before ypbind. You can choose not to have the user list or live with the |
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> inconsistent "broken" look on first boot, or put X back in level 5. |
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> cheers, |
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> Matthias |
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that might all be true for your setup, but for a single user desktop putting X |
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in boot (in gentoo), can be a GOOD THING to do. |
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Why wait for cron, hddtemp, nscd, metalog, postfix, cpufrequtils, smartd? It |
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is all very non essential - this services can all savely start while you are |
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typing in your password at that nice kdm prompt. |
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