Re: Some questions...
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:02:51PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote:
> Another thing... I've seen that the gnumach package now includes color
> support :-)) But I don't see it in the gnumach cvs which I have
> recently download. The file is still the same, without color. Why?
Because color support really doesn't belong into the kernel. The console
should be handled by an external program.
Considering the hurd architecute, the console in gnumach is a hack (a
minimal console can be justified for boot messages). We don't want hacks in
the cvs source, because they are a short term solution only.
> And about the hurd getty... I posted here some time ago a patch to
> allow it use /etc/issue, like a linux system. But I don't see this in
> the distribution... I think it could be interesting to other people to
> be able to use this file ;-)
This change introduces new features, which are difficult to revert when
people start to use them. So I will not make the decision to apply this
patch all alone, and the Hurd authors are currently not doing much Hurd
stuff, so we have to wait for an official word on it.
Thanks,
Marcus
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