[Mageia-dev] bug, omission or feature

Sun Jun 3 19:49:04 CEST 2012

On Sunday 03 June 2012 19:09, Felix Miata wrote:
+> On 2012/06/03 17:46 (GMT+0100) Colin Guthrie composed:
+> 
+> >>>  /etc/inittab is no longer used or read.
+> > For real men (and women), we just change the
+> > /etc/systemd/system/default.target symlink to point at whatever target
+> > we want to use by default.
+> 
+> So instead of changing one character in a file that has been standard for 
+> decades, one must figure out the name of the desired target file, then type a 
+> lot so as to get the required symlink.
+
+I agree with Felix, this is not a good change.
+I'm sure there is a perfectly valid ans sound reason for changig it, but there's a difference in changing it for the better and changing it for the worse.
+This is a bad change.
+
+Besides, the best thing about the inittab is that it is self-explanatory even to novices. A symlink is Not obvious.
+
+> Thank God everything that used to make good sense hasn't been replaced by 
+> something more complicated. 
+
+Don't give them any ideas. ;-)=
+
+> I've taken to including a digit on every Grub  
+> kernel line quite some time ago.
+
+I've done the same for more than 10 years.
+
+Editing a text file to change a number, eg. from "5" to "3", is much easier to remember than changing a symlink to "/lib/systemd/system/runlevel3.target", especially when explaning this to a not so advanced user over the phone, who doesn't have a working X at the moment. (Yes, I actually do have such support calls.)
+The support departments are just going to love this. ;-)=
+
+-- 
+Johnny A. Solbu
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