Bug#325234: debian-policy: mention if coincidence runlevels 2345 all same
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 04:28:03PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> On Friday 02 September 2005 19:35, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Yes, it works while the RH/MDK/SuSE implementation does not.
> > On Debian at least you do not need to mess with /etc/inittab each time
> > you install/remove a display manager.
> >
> > How do you plan to fix that while keeping the admin free to change the
> > run-level ?
>
> wouldn't need fixing, as nothing would be broken:
> if the graphical runlevel is used as the default then runlevel 5
> automatically becomes equal to runlevel 3 when no display manager is
> installed, no need to mess with inittab at all.
>
> (actually the distinction between 'multi-user without network' and
> 'multi-user with network' is more interesting to me: booting a laptop
> without netwerk easily saves whatever the netwerktimeout is on bootup when
> your somewhere without working network, which by default is a minute I
> think)
So what you're really looking for is:
* Interactive bootup
* Software such as the stuff in the 'whereami' package that checks
whether the MII reports a link before running a DHCP client, so that
you do not have to wait for the timeout.
That doesn't require runlevels.
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