On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:03:50PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 12:00:02AM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote: > > Feel free to file a bug against tasksel, but please look at it again (hint: > > you don't need to reinstall for that :). > > If you're a newbie and you screw up the XFree config, you may not know about > single user mode, so you'd have to reinstall until you got the config right. > (xdm sometimes makes the system completely unusable except remotely if the X > server does not start properly.) I strongly agree that xdm SHOULD NOT be > installed with the task-x-window-system package, or should not be enabled in > the init system by default (maybe a debconf question, like in ipmasq?) I'm pretty sure that gdm attempts to start X a certain number of times before quitting, I'm not so sure if xdm has this functionality. It would be a useful feature. Also an X configuration should be tested out separate of xdm, while configuring. A debconf question sounds good though, how about one that lets you specify which run levels xdm will be installed for? Matthew Danish > > -- > -> -/- - Rahul Jain - -\- <- > -> -\- http://linux.rice.edu/~rahul -=- mailto:rahul-jain@usa.net -/- <- > -> -/- "I never could get the hang of Thursdays." - HHGTTG by DNA -\- <- > |--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-| > Version 11.423.999.220020101.23.50110101.042 > (c)1996-2000, All rights reserved. Disclaimer available upon request. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- GPG public key available from http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/mdanish/
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