Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > 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. If they are unsupported then yes, users who want to use them should be writing them themselves. > As far as I know, most major distributions > that don't use systemd ship rc-scripts for the display managers. Are they telling their users not to use them too? > Moreover, rc-scripts are distribution specific and I don't see how > they can be provided by upstream. Right, for the scripts upstream is Arch and Arch is advising users not to use them. -- () against html e-mail | usenet & email communication netiquette /\ www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
