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On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:58:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > That's whay I used to do until I found the gentoo=nox option, it |
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> > saves maintaining an extra runlevel. |
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> But X isn't the only thing I don't run when not running X, if you see |
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> what I mean. Only about 3 other things differ at the moment, but I |
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> leave the possibilities open. |
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In that case, another level is a better option. |
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> And I don't have to type anything at the grub command prompt. |
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Of course not, you have an extra GRUB menu option to specify the runlevel, |
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as I do to specify the nox option. |
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> And maintaining the other run level is not arduous anyway, as changes |
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> occur only when I install or remove a system service. Rarely, in other |
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> words. |
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I used a script in local.stop to copy all symlinks in default to the nox |
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runlevel, except the ones I didn't want to run, which were only xdm and |
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vmware, hence my preference for the simpler soluton when it bacame |
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available. |
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> To each his own, of course, as ever. |
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Indeed, choice is wonderful. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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