On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 > > -- > () against html e-mail | usenet & email communication netiquette > /\ www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html > 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?
