xdm updates and Debian

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Jun 15 13:46:48 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:15:23AM -0400, Howard Gibson wrote:
> William,
> 
>    Your init level is probably controlled by /etc/inittab.
> 
>    On my Red Hat system, the line is "id:5:initdefault:", with 5 being the initialization level.  This brings up the X Window System.  If you change this to 3, you do not get the X Window System.
> 
>    Would Debian change this?

The Debian policy is: The user decides what runlevels mean, and by
default they are mostly all the same.

xdm/kdm/gdm (whichever is the current enabled default, if any) starts in
all runlevels (2-5).

That is one of the things Debian breaks in LSB support.  LSB mandantes
the RedHat init level meanings, and Debian won't support that since it's
considered a step backwards from letting the admin do what they want.
Besides what business do LSB applications have knowing what each
runlevel means.

Lennart Sorensen
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