On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:18:36PM -0700, David Walser wrote: > If you start dm as a service, it can start getting > started before some of the other services, and some of > the other services don't really need to be done before > X starts, so you can basically boot to X faster this > way. With inittab, it wouldn't start launching until > *all* services had started. > > In fact, I can now remember people asking for Mandrake > to do just this.
That's what I assumed was the reason. But it would be nice to know why... > Peter Ruskin also suggested we did this to "copy > someone else," so I'm wondering if RH has gone this > way. > > I guess I'm not against them doing this, although so > close to release was not smart, as its causing > problems, and I hope they all get ironed out. It > would have also been nice if flepied (I think he made > the change) had posted a short note when he made the > change explaining why. It took me a while to (I > think) figure it out. Agreeded... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org If your love has no hope of being welcomed do not voice it; for if it be silent it can endure, a guarded flame, within you. - The Wisdom of the Sands
