In bashing my head against X for a while I've come to the realization that perhaps it's time we come up with some official policy regarding runlevels.
As it stands (as I understand it), runlevels 2 through 5 are presently identical in Debian. There is an ugly kludge in Debian XFree86 right now, involving "start-xdm" and "start-xfs" which can make things behave counterintuitively, and I'd like to get rid of these things. I'd like to kick xdm and xfs over to runlevels 4 and 5 (as RH and Slackware do, from what I gather on #debian). It doesn't matter to me what we define runlevel 3 as. We might as well leave it the same as 2 for now. To distill my needs to their barest essentials: 1) I'd like a separate runlevel for fun and games with X. 2) I think it would be cool for Miquel (or someone) to write an /etc/inittab manipulator so I don't have to ask the user to manually change that file to set their default runlevel. Needless to say, X can't do that itself. -- G. Branden Robinson | Software engineering: that part of Purdue University | computer science which is too difficult [EMAIL PROTECTED] | for the computer scientist. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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