[Mageia-dev] Deprecating startx

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 7 16:52:21 CET 2012


2012/3/7 Zézinho <lists.jjorge at free.fr>:
> Em 07-03-2012 10:26, Colin Guthrie escreveu:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Unless someone comes along and does a reasonable amount of coding before
>> mga2, I think we'll have to deprecate supporting startx (it can still be
>> used in some circumstances, but audio and accelerated graphics will not
>> be available).
>>
>>
> Now I know where the same problem with autologin comes from ;-)
>
> I suppose using sysvinit allows to still use startx and autologin, so I will
> work at least without systemd.
> Maybe we could only add this information to the Errata, along with an howto
> use sysvinit?
>
> If I followed things well, upgrades from MGA1 will continue using sysvinit,
> so people won't get this regression on upgrades?

Would it not be counterproductive, having 2 very different types of
systems with lots of different possible causes for problems?

-- 
wobo


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