On 2011/5/8 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? I never used inittab to launch a display manager and always used rc-scripts, and I will never switch unless I go for systemd. I don't understand the point of removing these scripts, unless you want users to write them themselves. As far as I know, most major distributions that don't use systemd ship rc-scripts for the display managers. Moreover, rc-scripts are distribution specific and I don't see how they can be provided by upstream. -- Rémy.
