On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:32 -0400, Brian Wheeler wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:25 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > On 2008/10/29 08:26 (GMT-0400) Brian Wheeler composed: > > > > > Almost all of the "reasons" from the original email boil down to "we've > > > always done it this way". > > > > Don't boil it down. The reasons are good why we've always done it this way > > and should keep the status quo. I haven't seen sufficient reason in this > > thread to dismiss those reasons. > > _What_ are the good reasons why we've done it this way? Its only tty7 > because someone arbitrarily decided to run 6 getty processes way back > when. If someone had decided that 4 was sufficient, then we'd be > arguing about tty5. > > At least with X being on tty1 it makes sense since its the primary > terminal for most people. Well, this change adds non-determinism to what tty1 actually is. Play around a little with booting rawhide into runlevel 3 rsp. 5 and switching between runlevel 3 and 5. I did so today and occasionally ended up with X11 on tty7 sometimes on tty1 and sometimes with the machine going down the hard way. > The only non-"but that's the way it's always been" argument I've seen > thus far is documentation Correct, it is a convention, just like any other arbitrary convention on key interpretation, just like "Ctrl-Alt-Del", "Ctrl-Alt-Backspace" or "Del" and "Backspace" (linux veterans might recall the dispute on Del vs. Backspace) rsp. the DEC/Vt100 keycodes in terminals (Which Linux new-comers might never have heard about). > ...which is something that can be changed. Why should it be changed? So far there simply is no technical reason for why it should be changed. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
