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...

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