Re: Request for pkg-dm

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 04-Jun-07, 18:33 (CDT), Sune Vuorela <debian@pusling.com> wrote:
> 1) There is in most init scripts a var you can set
> HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER - some init scripts supports to set it
> externally, some of them don't.
>
> If we just make sure to have the possibility to do
> HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=false /etc/init.d/?dm start/stop - we
> have a simple, but hacking solution that is easy to implement. Maybe
> informing about the possibilities when the initscript is stopping.
>
> So there is actually a existing solution. Changing this just because
> we can might not be the right solution. How many users do actually
> need a change here? And how many users do we annoy if we introduce
> bugs here? Is it actually worth changing ?

As mentioned in bug 425770, and the main reason I've brought this whole
topic up, is that the current solution doesn't fit in with the way the
rest of Debian behaves (modulo other bugs): 

	/etc/init.d/?dm start

doesn't work. The standard way to control whether or not an init script
is activated during boot (or, more accurately, a change in run level)
is via the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d (or, more accurately, whatever the
rc system's update-rc.d implements). That's the way I, generic Debian
sysadmin, expect things to behave. I'm startled when things don't work.

At a bare minimum, I think making the use of HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER
consistent between all DM packages is needed,

Regards,
Steve

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