On Monday 28 March 2005 06:11 am, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Here is another basic gentoo newbie question - what is the logic
> behind the way runlevels work in gentoo??
>
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By now you've found the docs at gentoo.org... So I'll just be offering my
opinion to this thread.
(...one second while I don my flame proof shorts...)
While many tout the current runlevel scheme as one of the strengths of gentoo.
I on the other hand point out that this is one of gentoo's weaknesses.
Breaking away from a more traditional sysv runlevel logic, relying instead on
dependencies IN the startup scripts is... well.. not logical and can be
downright confusing. Gentoo is the only distribution that I've used that does
this madness. If it were an easy task to rip it out and pop a more
traditional runlevel scheme in it's place... I would jump at it. I've looked
into doing it myself at one time.I even had some success, but like everyone
else on this list, I have to work too. But it's doable, maybe even via an
ebuild too.
(now to moderate the flames)
That said, Gentoo has been the most rewarding linux distribution I've
discovered and I use it in nearly 99% of my linux solutions.
Cheers.
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