On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 10:31, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 11:25 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote: > > You are responding to an issue that no one is bringing up. No one is > > talking about how many mingettys are launched. On the other hand you > > are declaring as a resolved starting point the very thing that is > > being questioned. The question is "who gets tty1". > > Who cares? If X lives on tty7 and you get an extra flicker, then that's > bad. If it lives on ttyX and it doesn't flicker, it's good. > > The sort of person that even knows what a tty is, is probably in a > position where they can change it to whatever they want. Seriously, had > anyone done any research on the number of Fedora users who even use > ttys? > > This isn't a community decision decided by +1 or -1's. This is the > package maintainer (and upstream) changing with a good reason. Well, the community is saying that reason is not good enough. I think it's fair to ask the package maintainer to reconsider. Making changes that break years-long traditional behaviour without community consultation is arrogant at best. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
